Name: 2017 Personality 14: Introduction to Traits/Psychometrics/The Big 5
Uploaded: 2020-03-30T07:01:34.000Z
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I want to make a little announcement first.

I'm going to do a series of lectures, I think, starting in May.

We're trying to look into booking that.  On a, I'm

going to do a psychological interpretation of the bible from beginning

to end.  That's the plan anyway.  So I'm going to do that once a week.

I would recommend that you... (and maybe your not an that's fine obviously)

you can just, there's a place you can sign up

It doesn't mean that you'll attend. I'm just

trying to see if there are people who are interested.  I've been

interested in doing that for a long time and so I think I'm going to try it and so.

That's the announcement.  Then, is that about it?

I guess so.  OK! So look we are going to switch gears today.

Um.  The first half of this course, as you've

because it's grounded essentially in clinical theories

towards the philosophical.  And I told you that the reason for that was that

I regard clinical psychology as a branch of engineering

It's Human Engineering obviously; and because of that

it's an applied science and so that means it straddles the

ground between a science and a practice and

and so the logical consequence of that is that

investigation into the philosophy of value

is necessary in order to understand clinical

Because really what you are trying to do as a clinician,

you could say that you are trying to do two things; one is to help people

have less terrible lives.  But you are also trying to help them

have better lives. and there is obviously a value structure

because you are moving from something of less value to something of more value

to overcome what ever tendency you might have to

impose your value structure on someone is you do an awful lot of listening

is to say to them.  "Well; obviously you are here

because you would like things to be better. But that's OK.

We can use your definition of what constitutes better.

We can use your definition of what constitutes worse.

Or we can establish that through dialogue, and negotiation.

What are you aiming at? How would you like things to be better

a year from now say?  If you could have what you wanted,

if your life was put together what would that look like?

discussion with people about that if you are not cram

the way that they are orienting the world into your particular perspective.

Now.  That's one of the dangers of being the adherent of

a given psychological school.  Now having said that.

There was research done many  years ago, showing that

which means that you sort of pick and chose from different therapeutic schools.

You tended to not be as effective as you were if you were the

that there are so many schools of psychological thought

that if you say that you pick an choose from all of them, what that

really means is that you don't know anything about any of them.

if someone comes to you and they're very chaotic and confused.

onto their life is likely to be an improvement over no structure at all.

And you can think about that in a Piagetian sense, is that

you know you're going to be happier playing a game, rather than no game.

that are better than no game.  And so if you go to

a therapist that has a particular view point

and they help you structure your understanding of the world

within the confines of a given clinical model;

and you came in there very chaotic and uncertain,

then maybe that's going to be a lot better for you than just floundering.

And I think that there's some real truth in that.

And I think that that's part and parcel of the same, er;

"reasonable observation about maturation" is that

it's very necessary for people at some point in there life

to dedicate themselves to a single game, of some sort.

Which is kind of what you are doing at University.

You Know, you have to become 'one thing' at some point in your life;

and the sacrifice of course is that you give up all the other things that you could become.

But you don't really have a choice because

if you don't decide voluntarily to become one thing.  You know

to become a disciplined adherent of some specific

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