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Balancing Faith and Practice

5 Commentsby   |  05.02.11  |  The Schools of Psychology (Part IV)

As the end of the semster appraoches and we have been through the different schools of psychology, Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis, Humanistic. All three of these schools have a place in the present day some more than others but still a place. There are so many arugments against this and that how do you decide what is right. How do you, I guess find the balance between your faith and practice. Like people who study history find that there are some discrepancies in the Bible and things that they find in the field. My question is I guess how do you find your balance and how do stand up for what you do as a counselor without discrediting the Bible. Obviously, it is possible, but when you come up against that one person who is so dead set on that if God has not fixed it then it should not be fixed how do you persuade them that you are here to help.

Facial Features and Aggression

8 Commentsby   |  03.21.11  |  Beginning of Scientific Psychology (Part III)

When we watched that video in class I thought to myself I do not think I agree so much with how we tend to search out for our mate. I thought when they said that women tend to prefer men with softer features were more suitable for long term relationships I thought that was ridiculous because if you look at pictures Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer they had softer features than the average “masculine” man. I see that they were both married and all that, but the point I am touching upon is the aggression being linked to the facial features.  I know these are exceptions and so I should not linger on these but it does just stand out. Most notorious serial killers tend to blend into surrounding looking “normal” so they tend to not have overly masculine features. These men obviously had much more testosterone than their counterparts. So you cannot judge how much testosterone a man has just but the features of his face. You cannot just tell how aggressive someone will be by looking at their faces; there is probably a lengthy back story of abuse and other issues that have not been brought to light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

8 Commentsby   |  02.21.11  |  Renaissance/Premodern (Part II)

I found that Nietzsche was a very intelligent man growing up and his relationships are what shaped him and his writing. After his father died he was left with a lot of women For example, when Lou rejected his proposal twice he finally went into a depression and he ended up writing Zarathustra which seemed to be like an autobiography. Nietzsche took a lot of his everyday life and belief systems and morphed them into his well known ideas today.  When he claimed the statement “God is Dead” he was referring to the philosophers who took a view that we are alone in this universe because we get our knowledge from the universe.

The way Nietzsche uses his experiences and beliefs to develop ideas that are still prominent today and still firmly believed in my many is a huge accomplishment even though I think that he is a bit radical but true in his ideals.

Views of Happiness?

7 Commentsby   |  02.01.11  |  Pre-Renaissance (Part I)

When listening to the lecture on the differences and similarities of the Greek philosophers I thought to myself that as Christians we take a little from each philosopher and morph it into something that is something that we can make sense of and apply to our everyday life.

Take Plato, he believes that pleasure is a temporary shadow. He could be talking about physical physical  pleasure or he could be talking about physical pleasure as in materialistic items and  how we should not take pleasure in things here on Earth because our true pleasures are in Heaven. As Christians I feel we that that to heart as our treasures are in Heaven. If you are not a Christian I feel you can still say that pleasure is only a temporary thing .

When Aristotle’s’  statement ¨Happiness (eudaimon) comes from fulfilling one’s purpose, from the complete life (hence not to the young)”  was presented I felt that that is not all true. I think that one can be happy from fulfilling one’s purpose be you young or old. I mean how do you  know if you have or have not already fulfilled or purpose. Your purpose could be just being.  We never know what God’s purpose is for us so we cannot assume that it can only happen when we are older.

The differences of between these views of happiness are great indeed. One is more rational and the other more sensation based.  The fact the their views of happiness are a little similar is a lot surprising. Plato being the logical and rational and Aristotle being sensational and experience driven that their ideas of happiness are a like in any way baffles me.  I found this video that is horribly made and only skims their views but I thought it to be funny.

Taeyanna Pannell's Comment Archive

  1. Taeyanna Pannell on Exisistential and Psychoanalytical
    9:18 pm, 05.02.11

    I feel like I am going to take from several of them in order to form my own style and I can cover the different needs of my future clients and that way I can help them cope or overcome what their issue is.

  2. Taeyanna Pannell on Carl Rogers was right on the money
    7:49 pm, 05.02.11

    Having empathy and building a real relationship with your client is a great role that counselors could do. No one wants to open up to a complete stranger there has to be a foundation of trust there. This was a great implementation done by Carl Rogers.

  3. Taeyanna Pannell on General Thoughts on Psychology...
    7:40 pm, 05.02.11

    I have not given it much thought quite yet, but I have a feeling that it will be snipets from all of them depending on the situation that clients will be in like Lawton said it does depend on your clients and the goals.

  4. Taeyanna Pannell on Humans Vs Animals
    4:39 pm, 03.21.11

    So true. I mean both animals and humans have the same emotions we are just more evolved causing us to have better control over them in most cases. I mean we are mammals so we are animals and a lot of our emotions are instinctual when one of our friends are in danger we have there backs etc. They only difference I believe is that we can control or suppress our emotions better.

  5. Taeyanna Pannell on Intelligence Testing
    4:27 pm, 03.21.11

    I agree that a persons intelligence cannot be based on a standardized test. There are many people who do not test well and to have them sit down and take it and they “fail” it then some peoples world depend on those results. This makes me think of the No Child Left Behind in the way that it was implemented to help but in turn it has hurt the people who really try and help the people who really do not care overall. This statement may not be completely true. Its just what I have experienced.

  6. Taeyanna Pannell on Darwin
    4:21 pm, 03.21.11

    I personally do not think we evolved from apes, but all I know is that we have evolved from the beginning until now. The skeletons that they find prove that we have evolved as human beings.

  7. Taeyanna Pannell on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Resilience
    7:14 pm, 02.21.11

    I agree with the education. I mean if we do not encourage the children they will not want to learn because no one is letting them have a chance to talk about there problems in the class room. I personally would not be in college had it not been the teachers that encouraged me day after to day to keep my head up and keep going. Rousseau was right when he said that we need help them develop moral character.

  8. Taeyanna Pannell on A Day In The Home of Benjamin Franklin
    7:09 pm, 02.21.11

    I do not know if I completely agree with that statement because I may be getting this wrong but I personally grew up in an environment that was to say the least not entirely good but I came out of that environment completely different than how I i should have. I mean I guess for the moat part this is true but there is always an exception.

  9. Taeyanna Pannell on Jean-Jacques- Rousseau
    7:04 pm, 02.21.11

    I agree with the private and general will statement. I agree that as humans we tend to be selfish creatures and we tend to not think towards the community. We do not like to be the one with the spotlight on us because we are sticking up for something all by ourselves we want to just stay in our little corner and conform.

  10. Taeyanna Pannell on Jean- Jacques Rousseau
    6:58 pm, 02.21.11

    I agree. I mean with all the obstacles that we humans go through shape us into who we will become and how we act in the future towards that thing. The things that we go through help build character in us later in life.