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LEARN AND BUILD A NEW PERSONAL SELF THROUGH SELF-DISCLOSURE (Therapy Process)
Psychotherapy is mental chess and a constant challenge for the therapist to handle the crisis situation as a facilitator and leader and not to paint with a particular therapeutic concept. It is only mental treatment and not a physical involvement as the change in thinking brings change in the related physical organs. This phenomenon is obvious in functional disorders, hypochondria, neurasthenia and various stress-related disorders where medical doctor fails but the therapist relieves the client from sufferings.
Despite distinctive human features of reasoning and cognition when a person is trapped under the spell of sharp feelings, he becomes senseless to control the flow of passions which derailed him to extremist, abnormal reactions. Under spell of intentions and predisposition, even intellectual and truth seekers are diverted from reasoning and intensively drive toward subjective conclusions. This is why daily inhuman incidents of killing, raping, robbing, assaults, extremism, and terrorism are taking place in this civilized world.
The Qur’an as a holy script of human nature is revealed by the Creator. In Surah Yousaf (12), guidance is revealed with a thoughtful narration of human nature. There are details of jealousy for love among the brothers to get father’s (Prophet Jacob) main attention, which forced them to get rid of the innocent brother (Prophet Yousaf) by throwing him in the well, where fortunately he was saved by the water-carrier of a caravan in Syria. Yousaf was sold to an aristocrat who adapted and trained him as a learned scholar and dream-analyst but his mistress was so enchanted for love-making with him that while attempting to seduce Yousaf, she was caught red handed while running after the honest lad. She was obsessed with him so the poor boy chose in the prison for safety purposes. Luckily, when the king had dreadful dreams, only Yousaf was able to clarify its interpretation, for which he was raised to the status of a great advisor to handle the coming period of food shortage in the entire country. As the chief food controller, when Yousaf’s stepbrothers requested grains, he recognized them and made a plan to force them to bring his younger brother, who was taken a prisoner in stealing, as planned by Yousaf. The father who was under constant shock at the separation of his son, further deteriorated mentally and emotionally, and pushed his sons to search out Yousaf as he believed that he existed in the world. So, when again they visited and pleaded for charity, Yosef disclosed how they had treated him, and his life struggles to his status as king of Egypt. So, he ordered his guard to bring in all the family members to him where he thanked the Lord for the reward of his struggles, and for holding a pure character when persuaded for the love-making and getting a high status in the country.
The purpose of presenting the gist of the surah is that under temptation, human beings can even turn brutal in revenge, an older lady of high prestige can sexually assault and try to kill the lover when id impulses are blocked to put him in prison. In the same way, a brother can involve his younger brother to trap the stepbrothers, take his brother in custody and, above all, the father possessed by love of a son becomes blind with crying and regains sight on meeting the dearest son.
In short, even in a normal human being, the nature of feelings prevails over reasoning, character and human dignity and a person becomes evil to achieve his target like a wild animal.
No doubt psychotherapy is a complex, tiresome and deep concertation process which demands patience and devotion with objectivity under professional ethic to resolve the deep-rooted complexes which have ruined the peace and adjustment in a client’s life. A client who has been trapped for long in mental chess wishes to come out with the clinician’s miracle of therapy in the shortest possible time. Under such circumstances, the clinician with sound knowledge and integrated self provides a trustable bond for catharsis, tries to collect information and underlying causes of pain and sufferings, develops a rapport by coming to his mental commutation frequency, shows empathy, and provides feedback according to his mental capacity. He listens to develop a mental picture about the inner mental mechanism within a private, soothing environment. Through systematic desensitization based on the law of causation, he develops insight in the client. Later on, he indirectly motivates him to act out the repressed anxiety, guilt-ridden thoughts, self-rejecting tendencies, creating awareness to locate the condoning process of a hapless and helplessness state of mind.
The therapist with coordination and mutual support prepares a daily activity chart to convert the anxiety-bound energy into action and mental relief. Although it is hard to take the client out of the trap of fantasies and negative thinking, it takes time to rehabilitate and build a fantasy-free world of awareness with joyful natural living, provides knowledge to reduce anxiety, and equips with method and technique to handle daily life challenges by understanding related people.
In this process, it is hard to get confidence by the therapist particularly with women with sex-related issues as they are over-guarded and perceive it as assaulting, so at the primary stage, a same-gender therapist is recommended to resolve the repressed id impulses. Gradually, dependency is reduced and the client is prepared to be self-sufficient and responsible for his own actions. Family co-operation and social adjustment process is important to make the client a respectable, responsible citizen in his life cycle.
Resolution demands the psyche’s nourishment as a mental-emotional issue, which is done in thinking faculty with relief of repressed id impulses and not practically performing the intensity of the desires which have turned into impulsivity, aggression, or rigidity of thoughts. The extraordinary plus point is a deep frequency to pick up feelings in their originality but the job starts afterwards to share and hold it for a change within thinking and personality pattern.
(Cont'd in the Book)
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. (Thomas Merton)