Understanding Life-Style: The Psycho-Clarity Process

by Jane Griffith and Robert L. Powers

Book Overview

Understanding Life-Style: The Psycho-Clarity Process is an inclusive text on personality assessment. The authors emphasize assisting the client in becoming CLEAR about his or her personality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918287030
• ISBN13: 9780918287038
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Americas Institute of Adlerian Studies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Breath of Fresh Air for the Field of Applied Psychology

As a practicing counselor and therapist, I consider, "Understanding Life-Style, The Psycho Clarity Process", to be a big "breath of fresh air" for the profession of applied psychology. For too long this field has been mired in mechanistic-reductionistic approaches which emphasize labeling over understanding and a "therapist knows best" mentality over true collaboration. Finally, a book that speaks in an artistic and scientific way about a psychology and process that helps people understand how primitive childhood and often unconscious beliefs are responsible for the many emotional and social maladies of our times. Rather than framing human processes as mental disorders, "Understanding Lifestyle" frames them as "creative processes designed for a (non-conscious) purpose" - amazing! Rather than viewing therapy as something the therapist does for the client, this unique book focusses on the client and therapist as "co-workers" - equally amazing! This unique and wonderfully written book is not only beneficial to the therapist attempting to locate a pathway through the cobwebs of psychological theory and human difficulty, but also to the layperson wishing to understand self and others. Filled with practical examples the therapist and average human being can readily relate to, this book is a must read for anyone intersted in "Psycho Clarity" vs. "Psycho Complication" and "Psycho Babble". You will never think about your clients, yourself or others in the same way ever again. A truly life altering book!

Understanding is a liberation.

It is a relief to read a text on personality development, and to discover that it is about the histories of distinct, unique persons. It is a further relief to discover that when one's way of having grown up and stayed in character until now is understandable, it is a way of living and thinking and feeling that is no longer necessary. This is a liberating book