Memory (11)
(A) I usually am eager to please others by doing things they ask me to do.
(B) Other people are inclined to have their own expectations about things I do.
(C) The world is a place where people can get furious with you if you do not happen to meet their expectations.
(D) In order to have a place in the world, I must do my best at the task at hand, but expect that some people may be dissatisfied with my effort.
Now, I am offering this record here to OEN readers who might be interested in trying out this fourfold heuristic exercise on their own childhood memories, because I believe that Dr. Rothenberg is correct in emphasizing the key role that articulation can play in the creation of insight (see esp. 63 and 176-179).
Dr. Rothenberg says, "Creating insight is one of the major therapeutic actions of psychotherapy" (page 63). In addition, he devotes a subsection titled "Creation of Insight and Personality Attributes and Structure" to further elaborating what else must accompany insight (pages 176-179). He says, "Two endpoints of the creative process in psychotherapy are the production of insight and of personality attributes and structure" (page 176).
Dr. Rothenberg also says, "As I suggested in the previous two chapters, creation of both insight and personality attributes and structure results from an articulation function that operates throughout the course of therapy" (page 177). This sentence prompted me to remember my memorable experience with the fourfold heuristic exercise about my childhood memories.
In addition, Dr. Rothenberg says, "In addition to this continuing articulation, with its separating and connecting in general, it is important to remember that both homospatial and janusian processes provide particular types of articulation. . . . The primary mode of articulation in the therapeutic process involves both therapist and patient working together. . . . [I]nsight is created in the interaction between the therapist and patient. . . . [A]ll childhood events are constructed in adulthood in accordance with the child's level of cognitive and affective development at the time they occurred. . . . Articulation of insight leads, in an intrinsic way, to articulation of personality attributes and structure. . . . Articulation of insight and of personality attributes and structure occurs concomitantly, each serving, to some degree, as a function of the other. . . . Alteration of maladaptive patterns and resolution of conflict, therefore, cannot alone result in improvement. New patterns and [personality] structures are needed that the patient never before experienced or used" (pages 177 and 178).
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