... like Jimi Hendrix was not the average musician let alone the average person. A rockstar has a different life than the average person. The drugs, sex, and alcohol were not satisfying him. Jimi Hendrix was in need of positive regard. Carl Rogers believed that as an individual we "instinctively value" (Boeree 3) positive regard. That is, we want love and attention. Similarly, Freud's "clinical experience ... led him to view love as much more important in the dynamics of the psyche than other needs" (Boeree 5). Freud believed that love was instinctive. Every life organism needs love and att...

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... would analyze his patient using hypnosis. He wouldn't use hypnosis for suggestion; instead he would use it to uncover painful and forgotten memories in his neurotic patients. Freud believed that during the course of a person's development unacceptable sexual and aggressive drives are forced out of consciousness. These repressed urges, constantly striving for release, are sometimes expressed ... about whatever thoughts came to their minds about dreams, fantasies and memories. By interpreting these associations Freud helped his patients gain the insight into their unconscious that he beli...

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... to this process as scapegoating. For example, in abusive families, where children are being neglected, they begin to seek love and attention outside of home, on the streets, by doing drugs and drinking with peers. Then parents tend to find their children at fault of causing quarrels with each other. In family therapy, blame for systemic problems can rarely be assigned ... . In directive therapy, the therapist guides the child in play activities and makes interpretations. In nondirective therapy, all direction and responsibility are left completely to the child. Nondirective therapy is be...

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