Understanding Life-Style: The Psycho-Clarity Process
by Robert L. Powers, Jane Griffith
Category: Lifestyles

Understanding Life-Style: The Psycho-Clarity Process is an inclusive text on personality assessment. The authors emphasize assisting the client in becoming CLEAR about his or her personality development and dynamics, including basic convictions about self, others, and the world formed in the family of origin and rehearsed in working out of life. There are mistaken ideas in everyone's biases, and these can be uncovered and reconsidered, and new attitudes can be developed, but this can take place only if the client sees clearly what he or she actually IS DOING, what he or she is doing it FOR, and the price being paid: This is psycho-clarity. The text guides the therapist in a collaborative inquiry into the current life situation, presenting problem, and life tasks (love/intimacy, work, friendship/society); client impressions of gender guiding lines and role models in childhood; family atmosphere and family values; psychological birth-order vantage; genetic possibility and environmental opportunity; the particularities of the childhood experiece and the challenge of adolescence; and the gathering of early recollections. The text provides a bounty of case examples to assist the therapist in the interpretation of the material.