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The problem that Jack seems to be facing is one of bewilderment about being in school at his age. He feels that life is passing him by, but since he had previously changed careers in midstream, he feels compelled to stick this one out, whatever the cost. Jack's dissatisfaction with his personal and professional life is becoming more and more apparent in his conscious personality, often making him irritable, tense, and unable to get any of the assigned work accomplished  a dangerous thing as he says, "for someone so close to the doctoral qualifying examinations."

Jack was born in a medium sized, heavily working class town in the Midwest. Neither of his parents were educated beyond the high school diploma, but from a very early age Jack was given every possible opportunity to learn and read. In fact, he had already mastered the alphabet and elementary reading exercises before he went to kindergarten. Yet, it seems, although he was intellectually superior to his classmates, he quickly learned that in order to get along with them, he would have to "play me

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dge up about other people, than they are about their own lives. T: What do you think your absence from Scanning these functions tells your colleagues? J: Tells them! It tells them nothing! Denial/Anger T: Think for a moment, do you give Scanning off the impression of being interested in their lives, or the functions of the department that you're studying in? J: Well, I might be telling them that Questioning I'm too dedicated to my research to Incongruent Feelings bother with such things. But I guess I'm also telling them that I don't want to bother much with them, and all their petty problems and ideas. Generalization On the other hand, I wonder if they think that since I don't bother with their feelings, they shouldn't ever have to bother with mine? Questioning/Fear of I just wish I could make people the Unknown understand that I don't want to be rejected anymore! THEORY APPLICATION  Personcentered therapy, formulated in basic principles by the late psychologist Carl Rogers in 1940, approaches therapy with the idea of helping people that are in conflict (Corsini, 1989, p. 155). It uses a voluminous amounts of collected data from therapy transcripts, in order to fully develop a workable
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