Self-awareness is the conscious recognition and understanding of one’s own thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and their underlying patterns, often serving as the foundation for personal growth and therapeutic interventions like Awareness Integration Theory
Metacognitive Integration is a dynamic process of exploration, identification, connection AND reconnection of the organismic self with it’s systemwide functions. It is a process that allows the individual to actualise themselves. This optimises the integration of their organism, to allow them to better thrive in the local environment.
Rogers’ phenomenological theory complements DNA-Self Theory by providing a relational framework for reclaiming pruned natural DNA-Originated potentials, but assumes greater accessibility to innate growth drivers than childhood chronic trauma may allow ,ost people to access.
This article explores Carl Rogers’ 19 propositions of understanding of human behaviour, each proposition is examined, criticisms explored.
Phenomenology originated as a philosophical movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily through Edmund Husserl’s efforts to establish a rigorous “science of consciousness” by describing phenomena as they appear in lived experience, free from preconceptions.
Snygg and Combs’ phenomenal field theory, outlined in Individual Behaviour: A New Frame of Reference for Psychology (1949), posits that all behaviour is completely determined by the individual’s phenomenal field, which they described as the individuals total subjective awareness of reality, including perceptions, feelings, thoughts, and values.
Carl Rogers’ phenomenological theory of personality and behaviour forms the core of his person-centred approach, viewing the individual’s subjective “phenomenal field”, as the primary determinant of behaviour and growth.
Rogers’ View of the Self-Concept: Carl Rogers described self-concept as the organised set of perceptions and beliefs a person holds about themselves. He believed that the “real self” (the authentic, innate self) often diverges from the “ideal self” (the self shaped by external expectations), and the gap between the two can lead to psychological distress.
Unconditional positive regard serves as a key element in Carl Rogers’ person-centred therapy.
The salutogenic model, proposed by Aaron Antonovsky in the late 1970s, is a theoretical framework that focuses on factors that support human health and well-being,