Applications of Adler's Tendentious & Antithetical Apperception

Using different figure-ground pictures (ex. young lady,old lady) allows my B.D. students the opportunity to look for the possibilities of situations being different from what they see. Then, they may be more suggestible to look for new pictures after they are shown that the picture could be either, both, and more. This frees the students up over time for negotiating with others who may see pictures differently than they do. As a result of these lessons, the students may look for an alternative picture different from their own which may connect them with other individuals. It is important to use this as an exercise in cooperation and not a tool for diagnosing pathology because you want the students to be open for discussing seeing things differently. Seeing things differently also means the teacher accepts at that time the pictures the students report seeing. This is a brainstorming technique and only later through examples do you role model the behaviors you want to teach. I was introduced to using figure-ground reversals this way from Dr. Rhodes who was a student of George Kelly's; creator of Personal Construct Theory. Dr. Rhodes also is the creator of "The Life Impact Curriculum" and author of "The Child Variance Studies Series"

I have also asked my class why people may see different pictures within the clouds? I continue to ask them which picture is the right one and why what appears to be one picture of the cloud may change within a few moments to a different picture? I then follow up reading them a book called "Spilled Milk". This is a story book which suggestable pictures appear differently throughout the story in the spilled milk of a child. I do many other things with this and, in fact, create a teaching approach which I see may dissolve my students' tendentious and antithetical apperceptions.

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Re:Applications of Adler's Tendentious & Antithetical Apperception, by Henry Stein, 09/23/00 Dissolving the Life-Style and fictional final goal through The Life Impact Curriculum, by Craig Ahern, 09/26/00

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