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The Healing ProcessThis is a brief psychological overview of the healing process. The image ofhealing is best described by Gloria Vanderbilt in "A Mothers figment" when shetalks of moderniseing the invisible unbreakable glass bubble which enclosed her thatkept her always anticipating loss with echoes of all past losses. She wrote, forexample (Page 3),"Some of us are born with a sense of loss there from thebeginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. Loss, as defined, asdeprivation, can be interpreted as organism born into a world that does not includea nurturing mother and father. We are captured in an unbreakable glass bubble,undetected by others, and are perpetually seeking ways to break out, for if we can,surely we will find and touch that which we are missing".     This concept of healing was also described by Philip Berman in "If It IsNot Good Make It So" as changing positively from the unhappy attitude of(Page48) "we n ever got the habit of happiness as others know it. It was always as ifwe were waiting for something better or worse to happen".     Psychological theory of change suggest it is possible to heal, to breakout of the glass bubble, to check the attitude of happiness. For example, in"The Process of Change Variations on a Theme by Virginia Satir says on Page 89that "successful change-making turns out to involve struggle, necessitatingskill, pertinacity and perspective". The struggle occurs when a foreign elementproduces chaos until a new integration occurs which results in a new status quo.Kurt Lewin echoed this view in saying that an old attitude has to unfreeze, the someone experiments, a new attitude develops and a refreezing occurs.     Janis and Prochasky suggest a person starts in relative complacency, ispresented with challenging information, the person evaluates the new challengeto habit or policy and reviews alternate poli cies to create a new policy orreturn to the original one,     The psychological theories commission on perspective and rational thought.The significance of the therapist is in giving a new perspective and in aidingself-esteem in order to break down resistance to change. Otherwise, Satirsuggests people are likely to revert to their trance lik... ... learn that laws and mores are not absolutes but open toconstant revision as we are to do with our inner selves.Psychology seems to share the ideas that a person in emotional pain isstuck in a self made prison house which can be escaped through unconditional positiveregard and a fresh perspective. What isnt clear is how rational thoughtcombined with love enters the persons heart and soul.BibliographyBugental James,F.T. "Lessons Clients find out Therapists", J. of HumanisticPsychology Vol.31 No. 3 Summer 1991Mittleman Willard "Maslows Study of Self-Actualiztion A Reinterpretation"Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 31 No.1, Winter 1991 Pages 114-135Morrow Susan L. and Smith Mary Lee,"Survival cope by Sexual Abuse Survivors",Journal of Counseling Psychology 1995 Vol 42, No.1, pages 24-33."The Process of ChangeVariations on a Theme by Virginia Satir", J. ofHumanistic Psychology, Vol. 34 No.3, Summer, 1994 Pages 87-110.Schoen Stephen MD "Psychotherapy as Sacred Ground", J. of Humanistic Psychology,Vol 31 No.1, Winter 1991 Pages 51-55Vanderbilt Gloria, "A Mothers Story", Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y. 1996