Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffie accused herself of selling out. "I felt that by conforming I was eradicating all that was me in my personality. By pretending to be cheerful when I wasn't or by adjusting the tenor of my conversation according to whom I was talking to, I thought I was being hypocritical. I fought all my compromises. I would stare at the person before whom I thought I was compromising myself until my eyes burned...
...year, a kind of group feeling or group coherence which grows up among the case workers in any given group. It comes from the discussions. Each group has a day leader--he's a student--and a [professional] supervisor. The frequency with which they meet with the professional person--advisor (I guess everyone's a professional person)-- varies very much from group to group. The kind of group that forms also varies with the frequency...
...make the best case-aide workers . . . they're anxious to apply their theories where theoretical knowledge is almost an impediment. Total naivete is worse, however. Some students start working from voyeuristic interest, but that quickly drops out. Adequate supervision stops that. I'm talking about the kind of person who feels that if this patient could only realize it's silly to keep banging his head against the wall, he'd stop. We had had some like that, and they do pose a major problem, but eventually, through group pressure, they are ready to become case-aide workers...
...ones who have a smattering of theoretical knowledge get hung up on interpretations instead of listening to the patient and relating to him as a person. Successful case-aides react naturally to a patient and bring things back to the group to find out what they're about. Frequently they are being therapeutic without doing therapy. They try to figure out the patients, but as people, not as cases...
...case-aide working with the patient, and they are meaningful to the patient, I guess, in terms of the fact that the case-aide keeps working in spite of the rejection, but in terms of curing someone, the inner conviction, by God, I'm going to help this person, itself is not enough...