PSYB30H3 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
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Last cluster of material for exam / course. This & next week role of narrative. Mcadam"s believes this life-narrative / story approach offers a third tier in understanding people. Essentially the psychology of the stranger knowing someones traits. Filling in details w/ characteristic adaptations people make. Mcadam"s would argue to truly understand a person in his or her entirety move beyond to levels of life-story. There"s new info to be learned about people. When we understand ourselves or others exceptionally well, we have an understanding of the narrative of which the person in question lives their lives. Perhaps across all psychotherapies common denominator all are tapping into, role of therapist as producing a relationship in which the patient / client can revise their life-story. Agency : focus on self, formulation of separations, striving for power, self"s efforts to expand & grow and become increasingly differentiated.
