Good Will Hunting is the tale about a young adult male named Will Hunting, who has a high intelligence level in mathematics compared to other individuals his age; yet, he works as a janitor at MIT. Professor Gerald Lambeau, who specializes in mathematics, notices this and tries to find out why Will is not pursuing a career. The reality is that Will grew up in foster care and moved from home to home after being put through physical abuse. Due to this abuse and being in an unstable environment, Will has a tendency to be aggressive and violent towards other people. He has a close circle of friends but struggles to relate to other people and remains unconfident in romantic relationships with women. After going to a bar with his circle of friends, …show more content…
Each of these different types of therapies focuses on positive change to help the client overcome obstacles that hinder their growth or ability to find a solution to their problem. There are; however, a few challenges with these various therapeutic styles that may stop the client from coming back to receive help. Some of these challenges include resistance, lack of communication, and the development of a strong therapist-client relationship. Will is quite defiant to elders and may use anger and resistance as a defense mechanism from getting hurt …show more content…
101). If Maguire was an Adlerian therapist, the first thing he might do is perform a lifestyle assessment and have Will recall his earliest memories. Maguire may ask Will to keep a dream journal to record any dreams that could help the therapist figure out what Will desires in life and what contributed to his struggles. Maguire may also use a subjective and objective interview to do this. He would then pay close attention to how Will criticizes himself and point out that his lack of trust in people are due to him forming false assumptions that all people are like that. Due to Will’s experience with abuse and low self-esteem, Maguire may also investigate his past families or family constellation. Maguire in Adlerian therapy acts like a teacher and due to Will’s struggle with connecting with women, he would strive to teach Will how to be brave. He may also encourage him to pursue Skylar since she may be a potential social interest. With Adlerian therapy, Will would learn to modify his pessimistic thinking to be more optimistic in order to pursue his desired relationships. Due to his constant yelling at others and excessive anger, Maguire may ask Will to try to understand Skylar’s feelings by going out with her more, pursue a job, or volunteer in order to be involved and contribute to
Alfred Adler was born in 1870. He published his first major psychology book, Understanding Human Nature, in 1959. Alder has a passionate concern for the common person and he was very outspoken about child-rearing practices, school reforms, and prejudices that resulted in conflict. Alder created 32 child guidance clinics in the Vienna public schools and began training teachers, social workers, physicians, and other professionals. Alder believes that where we are striving to go is more important than where we have come from. He saw humans as both the c...
to ensure that he and Will have a relationship based on respect and responsibility. He would be responsibility in guiding and teaching Will steps to overcome his struggles and it would be Will’s responsibility to come to each session and apply what he has learned to his situation; however, the primary goal of Adlerian therapy is to help clients change their inaccurate assumptions about others and the world.
A key concept in Adlerian therapy is that people are social beings and are motivated by social interest. Since this is his first year at the institution he has had to adjust a new social environment. He also identified not having a strong social network and no longer being on speaking terms with a former
Good Will Hunting is the graceful tale of a young gentleman’s struggle to find out where he belongs in the world, by first finding out who he himself is. In this film, Matt Damon takes on the role of a disturbed genius that has a keen understanding of the deepness of human character. The film is a voyage through the mind of Will Hunting as he is required to undergo psychotherapy as an alternative to serving jail time. With the assistance of a psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Will learns about himself and recognizes his individual worth in the world by comprehending what is most important to him in his own life. This motion picture serves as a source of superb example for film technique. Gus Van Sant’s directing ability joined with the writing skills of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also plays Will’s best buddy, Chuckie, is a vibrant mixture of technical features used to induce sentiment and compassion amongst the viewers of this heart-warming film. Characteristics of the color, angles, shots, camera movement, editing, and distortions are all each particularly noteworthy to the general composition of Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting.
The healing process includes teaching, enlightening and encouraging the student, in order to help the student resolve some basic mistakes in their individual reasoning. A counselor using Adlerian therapy will assists students in understanding their thoughts, drives, and emotions that influence their way of life or thinking. When students are occupied in challenging situations, they sometimes have difficulty seeing beyond the problem and need help stepping away from or out of the problem so that another viewpoint can materialize. Students are also encouraged to acquire a more positive and productive way of life by developing
Although we did not have time for the lecture on Chapter 15, I found myself intrigued with the information I read on solution-focused therapies. The term solution-focused therapy kept coming up in my classes, but I really did not have an understanding of exactly what it entailed. In reviewing this chapter, I not only learned a lot, but also found myself in agreement with much of what I read. While there is no such thing as a one size fits all therapy, Solution-focused therapy has a lot to offer clients.
Alder is the founder of the Individual Psychology Therapy. This theory is developed from Freud’s psychodynamic theory and is considered one of the three major contributors to psychodynamic therapies. The beginning of the 20th century, the Adlerian therapy is a type of psychoanalysis known as the Individual Psychology therapy (IP), broke free from the Freudian school as a result rejecting Freud’s driven view of human nature. Adlerians have a calculated view of human nature. The terms Individual Psychology and Adlerian Psychology are interchangeable throughout this paper. Many other individuals have contributed to the Individual Psychology Theory. Alfred Adler’s development of the Individual Psychology therapy is a theory composed of personality and maladjustments (Watts, 2015). The medical model orientation to
Alfred Adler was the founder of Adlerian Counseling. He was born in 1870 in the country of Austria. who gave his theory the name Individual Psychology, because he wanted people to see that his theory and methods were designed to help clients help themselves. He believed that everyone had and internal need to be a part of society, and a desire to contribute to that society. That everyone strives for perfection, and everyone initially feels inferior to everyone else. He believed that when that feeling is not overcome, inferiority complexes develop, and if a person tries to overcompensate for inferiority, the develop superiority complex.
Initially, Ellis decided to become a psychoanalyst but most psychoanalytic institutes rejected novices who were not medical doctors (Corey, 2013). He located an analyst with the Karen Horney group who decided to train with him. Ellis completed a full analysis and practiced psychoanalytic therapy with a focus on the areas of personality assessment and marriage and family therapy. In the lat...
As a future counselor, I have enjoyed learning about the different techniques and theories of counseling. Understanding each approach is important but I believe that the counselors self knowledge of her or his own values, worldviews and life philosophy is just as important for the counselor to do the job effectively. Each theory that we learned about, I could see being helpful to different people, their circumstance and individual problem. I can see myself using different parts of each in my future career. Currently, I more drawn to the Adlerian theory. I understand and agree when Adler believed that people do have the ability to monitor and control the direction of their lives.The unconscious shapes personality,
(Erikson, 1980) Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development theory are in my opinion one of the best ways to look at Will Hunting’s changing personality and behaviour in the movie. Will’s avoidant and defensive personality is due to his abusive foster parents, he never received sympathy from his foster parents which made him accept the abuse as well as him becoming the abuser, as we see in the film when Will fights a former classmate that bullied him in kindergarten years ago. Another example of abuse is in the form of psychological abuse towards the marriage of Macguire and his deceased wife in which Will continually insults. Will seems to fluctuate stages throughout the movie, due to being an orphan and abuse from his foster parents he is fluctuating between the stages of basic trust vs. mistrust, and Initiative vs. guilt. Then when he meets Skylar (Minnie Driver) his development shifts to intimacy vs. isolation. (Erikson,
Vargas will seek to find out Michael’s phenomenological experience to life’s inherent problems, that being meaninglessness, freedom, isolation and death, and the areas these experiences are played out in, being self, others, nature and spirit. To begin to find this information, Dr. Vargas will have Michael fill out a Purpose of Life test, where she can find what inherent problems Michael is anxious about and in what areas they are experienced within. After getting this information, she may go further and conduct a Socratic dialogue with him, where she will ask Michael questions that will get him to reveal his own answers, Michael will articulate his own answers by reflecting on his own experience and this lead him to his own insights to his own values. Existential therapy is very client centered, so it will be up to Michael to find his own insight on his existential anxieties, the guilt of his choices or existential guilt, what he values most in life and his authentic self. Dr. Vargas may help Michael pick out when Michael is being his authentic self, but otherwise would have him articulate his own meaning of authenticity and his meaning of life. As Michael talks about his anxiety of having a lack of control, and his fear vomiting and catching germs from other children, Dr. Vargas may attribute this to a neurotic anxiety, as the anxiety is out of proportion to the actual problem. Dr. Vargas would not try to lower his fears about control or
Analytic therapies are often at odds over which type is the most objective. Freud’s psychoanalysis, as basic as it is, leaves room for unrelated and unimportant information to cloud a client’s judgment and conclusions. Jungian therapy provides a guideline that trains the client, and is both logical and open to change. As Davies comes to a closing of The Manticore, he writes about Davey having both clarity and happiness- both of which he had been missing in the beginning of his therapy with Dr. von Haller. “…and I was free to go down if I pleased. And I did please, for I sensed that there was treasure down there. I was filled with happiness, and I knew that this was what I wanted most.”
His theory was that all behavior is teleological, purposive, or goal oriented. The goal of all human behavior is to “socially belong” but keeping a separate identity or “sense of self”. As individuals we seek out social equality. We all have an inferiority complex and that it is completely normal. Adler’s “birth order” is a major factor in social influence in childhood. Siblings have the same parents and live in the same house they have different social environments. He broke his "birth order” into four sections: the first born, the second born, the youngest child, and the only child. Adler believed that dreams are our feeling about current
This is possible as it contains a step-by-step method that an be taught to the client and further applied outside of therapy sessions. The method can be simplified to follow the small actions of attitude adjustment, problem definition, creating alternate solutions, outcome prediction and fulfilling the chosen path (Dobson, 2009, p. 212). Altering the attitude to being positive about the problem is crucial as it sets the mental state to place in which motivation to solve the problem can thrive. Furthermore, defining the problem realistically is vital as it allows the individual to understand the full scope of what a realistic goal for overcoming the problem may be. From there the client must create alternate possible routes for them to undertake to possibly solve the problem. The Client must then assess the alternate solutions, predict the positive and negative outcomes and pick the best perceived option. Finally, the client must then try out the chosen path. They should monitor the situation and to understand progress. It is important that if the client does not receive a successful outcome that they do not give up. Rather they should repeat the cycle until a positive outcome takes place, considering any additional information gain from this