Analysis Of Dibs In Search Of Self

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In this age Psychology underwent various changes in order to adapt to the ever-changing ways of society. Multiple reading materials throughout time started to focus more on the mind and psychological aspects of the human race. Each individual has the ability to react different in any given situations. A powerful example within the psychological community is a reading called “Dibs in Search of Self”. The reading was narrative produced in 1964 by Virginia Axline. The narrative is centered on the character not officially being diagnosed properly. The main character Dibs is described as possibly mentally retarded, brain damaged, or suffering from autism. Axline, produced the reading to be a definitive text on play therapy, frames her account in a familiar psychoanalytic trajectory, as the search for a sense of independent selfhood and human dignity. Throughout the reading Dibs is suffering from severe emotional deprivation. The deprivation was caused by the lack of attention his parents gave him. Dibs were an unwanted child, whose mother perceived him as the cause of her failed career. In reality, Dibs had no chance to grow and survive in a hard fought society. The thoughts of his mother hindered her son before birth. Thoughts of a human have more power than humans can imagine. Continuous thoughts of anything weather negative or positive will formulate in this current realm.
The universe cannot deliberate determine negative or positive. The two notions are more of a choice rather than scientific laws. When Axline introduced Dibs, he was passive and was unable to connect affectively or to express his needs and desires. Axline described her first visit to the Dibs residents as a sterile environment. Even with the fam...

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...s brilliant scientist and never wanted children to rise. On the other hand his wife felt compelled to prove that the child was god sent and gifted. Dibs husband wanted nothing to do with his child and in sense children can feel the negative energy. In fact, both Husband and wife was nearly on the verge of institutionalizing Dibs. It was not until Dibs started showing tremendous growth before his mother finally revealed her role in her under developed child.
Axline methods and new solutions granted the child a chance to emerge from the continuous rejection. One of the special methods was isolating the child into an area of comfort. The most comfortable environment for Dibs was therapy sessions inside of a play area. The new environment allowed Dibs to discover himself in a space of security where he will not be quickly judged nor too excessively praised.

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