Reasoning about the soul E-Book

Staffan Garpebring

• Herausgeber: BoD - Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Serie: The FRAMES-model
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 60

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

FRAMES is an acronym for: F = Formation of external and internal sensory impressions R = Reactions in the body (neurology and endocrinology) A = Action M = Mental reflections E = Emotions S = Self as a social being The model is psychodynamic in the sense that each factor influences the others. It is an attempt to capture the complexity of human experience in a framework that both therapist and client can use to gain insight into their patterns. It is about becoming aware of how we shape and interpret our experiences, how the body reacts, how we act, think and feel, and how we understand ourselves in relation to others. The text begins with a personal description that sets the stage for the reader's understanding of both the author's professional experiences and the theoretical framework that the FRAMES model constitutes. There is a parallel between the early psychoanalytic ideas (Freud) and the author's own development of the personal model, which creates an interesting contrast between established theory and personal practice. The text is a reflective, non-academic non-fiction book that mixes personal experience with psychological theory. It shows how the author has, over the years, formed his own model for understanding people's inner lives, a model that is both practically useful and theoretically interesting. By combining visual aids with a personal narrative and historical references he manages to make complex psychological concepts more understandable to a wider audience.

Leseprobe

A psychological Framework and analysis model

Staffan Garpebring

Agens through focusing, acting, talking, tone, body-language and facialexpressions which affects dynamics in one´s own and others´ self experiences

The word agens has both psychological and social significance.

It is about the power to manage one´s life.

Agens comes from the Latin a´gens, meaning action, working.

The expressions ”I am”, ”set in motion” and ”act” can be derived from the Latin word a´go.

Within the framework of my psychological model, the word agens is about the ability to act focused as opposed to being helpless.

It is about the freedom to be oneself with responsibility for one´s own existence, with responsibility for one´s own health.

Agens in social contexts is about the social competence to be able to act and thrive in the culture one finds oneself in.

You can invest all your soul into your activities, be more or less focused and committed.

Table of contents

Overview of a psychological model.

First preface.

Second preface.

Introduction.

Reframing – seeing with new eyes.

How we learn to understand the world.

In the eye of the beholder.

Projective identification.

Toxic white shame.

Obsessive compulsive disorder.

Goodwill and aversion.

To forgive.

Conscious presence.

Summary.

References.

First preface

This reflective book is displaying an innovative integration of Freudian and behaviorist psychological ideas.

Since i have retired, i can choose what i want to spend my days doing.

I can choose to play my musical instruments when i feel like it, or write about my psychoeducational framework model if I want.

Our souls are shaped differently because we are born as different individuals who each experience life in their own unique way.

Over the years as a practicing psychologist I structured the analysis framework FRAMES that represents seven variable psychological parameters.

It became my psychoanalysis model that grew out of Brunswik´s lens model, which shows a way of describing inference behaviors.

I learned about the lens model during my interrupted doctoral studies at the Department of Psychology in Umeå.

Using statistical factor analysis we engaged in basic research on inference processes.

At work, in my conversations with high school students, I wanted to visually represent the student’s stories on a whiteboard. In this way I could confirm and together with my client analyze their problems.

And we could reason about the psychological factors that I have described in my books on the FRAMES model.

The notes ended up in different places on the whiteboard and followed the client´s story.

During the years as a psychologist at a youth reception center and at a health center my understanding of our souls deepened.

In the books about the emerging framework model I have sorted and placed the psychological parameters according to the placements on the first page of this book.

It became a visual mind map that made it easier to remember the whole of the FRAMES model.

Focus in our conversations could be on what the students used to notice in particular, how the body used to react, how the student used to act and think, and emotions that used to overwhelm.

Second preface

Around the turn of the century (1900) the Austrian neurologist and physician Sigmund Freud created an analytical framework for his reasoning with his patients about the soul including the abstract concepts of ”ego”, ”id” and ”superego”.

He chose the Greek words for reasoning about the soul ” psȳḱ hō” and “lógos”.

During my training as a psychologist in the 1970s, the teachers, as far as I remember, never used the Swedish word “själen” or the English “the soul”.

Among CBT psychologists, we still seem to avoid the ancient Greek word for the soul psȳkhḗ, related to psȳḱ hō, in the meaning of breath and spirit.

I can imagine that when ancient Greeks saw their parents die and stop breathing, they imagined, and hoped to be reunited with the deceased when they themselves would eventually die and stop breathing.

I can also imagine that ancient Greeks thought that the spirit could ascend into the surrounding atmosphere all the way up to heaven.

In literature and theology, the soul is a central concept.

The philosopher Descartes believed that the soul separates and leaves the body when we die. This may explain the caution in psychology in using the theological term soul.

Many Greek names of gods, Theódora, Theóphania, Theóphano and Theóxena begins with Theó.

Theology is about human reasoning about abstract god figures.

Psychology is about human abstract concepts about their body and soul.

Many psychologists have contributed to increased knowledge of the human psyche since Freud's time.

The word religion comes from the Latin religio, which means a sense of right and wrong, a sense of moral obligations.

Religion is about collective abstract ideals about a good society.

Politics is also about collective abstract ideals about collective abstract ideals about a good society.

In this way, religion is closely related to political ideologies. The laws established by modern political leaders have evolved greatly compared to the laws established thousands of years ago.

Both religious and political belief involve visions of the future. Religious belief is based on beliefs about an afterlife, and political belief about a desirable future in a political system.

The problem with both political and religious extremism is that both deal with abstract conceptual words.

This makes it difficult to communicate between us humans about critical issues related to religion and politics, which increases the risk of polarization regarding different religious and political ideals.

Scientific positivism should not be based on faith, but on sense-based experience that different researchers can agree on, because studies have been conducted under well-defined conditions that are credible, logical, and ethical.

The psyche is now defined among behavioral scientists as thoughts, feelings, sensory perceptions, motives, drives, and needs, including those that are currently unconscious.

How is our soul formed? What were our experiences of the world during the psychologically formative years of growth?

In this book I want to shed light on a psychological phenomenon that, in my opinion, has received too little attention in official psychological theories during the years I worked as a practicing psychologist.

I am referring to the human factor of emotion-driven perception, i .e. subjective and selective perception, tunnel vision and listener filters and the difficulty to find new perspective to think outside the old frame of mind.

On the other hand, if the body is really upset and danger is at hand, selective perception can focus dysfunctional cues to handle the situation.

Because of that the “human factor” can cause accidents.

We pay particular attention to things that arouse strong positive or negative emotions.

We like to choose, consciously, subconsciously or consciously, to notice things that we like. We also like to choose to ignore things that we dislike.We thus more easily remember things that arouse strong emotions.

This phenomenon is crucial in psychotherapy, both for therapists and clients.

When Sigmund Freud described psychological defense mechanisms, was he thinking of defense against the moral dictates of the surrounding culture?

Or was he thinking of psychological defense against experiencing the discomfort of being really upset in the moment?