Abnormal Psychology And Humanism Paper

Abnormal Psychology and Humanism

Carl Rogers proposed the theory of humanism. In the theory, he suggests that putting an individual in a positive and non-judgmental environment can prevent him from becoming incongruent. Thus, the individual can mature by overcoming his conflicts (Braun 2018). Humanism is used by psychiatrists to cure abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is the study of atypical behaviors, behaviors that could prevent an individual from doing everyday tasks (Licht, Hull & Ballantyne, 2017). The movie Anger management applies humanism and abnormal psychology to its characters. This paper will analyze David having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), showing unconditional positive regard to Galaxia, displaying congruence

Due to that threat feeling the person avoids being in the similar kind of event in the future (Moss, 2004). In the opening scene of the movie, young David is about to kiss a girl, and a bully pulls his pants down in front of other people and everybody starts laughing at him. Consequently, young David’s esteem is threatened in this event. In the next scene, David is with his girlfriend, Linda, at the airport. Linda tries to kiss David and he avoids kissing her because of the threatening feeling of some pulling his pants down in the public.

Positive regard when a person accepts another person for being who he is and forgetting his past behavior is called unconditional positive regard (Licht, Hull & Ballantyne, 2017). At the end of the movie, David is trying to find his girlfriend in the stadium. he comes across Galaxia, a transsexual man, who he had a bad experience with, in past because of his behavior. Galaxia helps him get to the field, and David thanks and kisses him and jokingly says “don’t think I don’t owe you a couple of smacks by the way.” Thus, this friendly exchange implies that David has accepted Galaxia for being who he is.