PYC4809 Exam portfolio 2021. PYC4809 - Therapeutic Psychology. Linda becomes painfully aware that she has perfected the art of manipulating men with her physical appearance. She says the appropriate things, she has an abundance of men in her life, all of her contacts with people are superficial, an...
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, PYC4809 Exam portfolio 2021.
Task 1: Case study
(3 pages)
READ THE FOLLOWING STUDY AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT
FOLLOW:
Linda becomes painfully aware that she has perfected the art of manipulating men
with her physical appearance. She says the appropriate things, she has an abundance
of men in her life, all of her contacts with people are superficial, and she accepts in
herself that she has not pursued any depth because she has apparently gotten what she
wanted with such little effort. But now she suffers as she comes to grips with her own
emptiness and superficiality. The issues of freedom with which she might well
wrestle as a result of her dawning plastic that I will risk finding out whether I’m real
or not? Since my style has worked so well in the past, will I really change now? What
if I pursue depth in a relationship only to find emptiness? Will I be better off deluding
myself that a fine exterior is really better than the experience of nothingness? How do
I begin to change? Can I allow myself to hurt, or will I retreat into old ways to repress
my pain?
Explain how you would proceed in your work with Linda by discussing how are
freedom and responsibility and striving for identity and relationship to others as key
concepts of Existential Therapy related.
(20)
Existential therapy is a therapy technique that is often described as philosophical in nature.
The reason it is labelled as a philosophical approach is due to the fact that it is more a way of
thinking then a method. Existential therapy is used when there are problems surrounding
freedom, responsibility, identity and so forth. This brings us to Linda. For most of her life
Linda has been able to manipulate others using her physical appearance. Due to this she
believes that the only contacts she has with people are superficial in nature. She feels empty
and thus wants to make a change. Yet she does have questions surrounding this change. Is
she real or not? how does she start to change? why should she change when her current way
of life is working? can she allow herself to get hurt? And so forth. To help Linda, existential
therapy will have to be used. The main question here is this: how are the aspects that Linda is
dealing with, these being freedom, responsibility, striving for identity and relationships to
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