{"id":6024,"date":"2017-04-14T11:38:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T11:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/counsellingtu.onpressidium.com\/?page_id=6024"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:05:23","slug":"introjected-values","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingtutor.com\/counselling-approaches\/person-centred-approach-to-counselling\/introjected-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Introjected Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

What are Introjected Values?<\/h1>\n\t

Introjected values are values that we adopt from others through the process of introjection.<\/p>\n

Feltham and Dryden (1993: 97) define introjection as:<\/p>\n

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Origins in Person-Centred Theory<\/h2>\n\t

The concept of introjected values forms part of Carl Rogers’\u00a019 propositions<\/a>\u00a0on the development of personality. Number 10 of these says (Rogers, 1951: 498):<\/p>\n

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Rory Lees-Oakes (2016:\u00a0Podcast 14<\/a>) translates this into plain English as follows:<\/p>\n

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How Introjected Values Hamper Development<\/h2>\n\t

Rogers believed that introjected values get in the way of people being their true (organismic) selves<\/strong>, causing them to adopt others’ values as their own truths.<\/p>\n

An example of an introjected value might be that of how women ‘should’ look (as implied by, say, magazine covers). This is robustly challenged by Naomi Wolf (2015) in\u00a0The Beauty Myth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\t

Merry (2012: 27) writes:<\/p>\n

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Introjected values can lead to the client experiencing incongruence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Carl\n\t

Rogers believed that introjected values get in the way of people being their true selves, causing them to adopt others’ values as their own truths.<\/p>\n\t\t

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How Therapy Can Help<\/h2>\n\t

Person-centred counselling theory suggests that when the\u00a0six necessary and sufficient conditions<\/a>\u00a0are present, the client ‘can relax enough to allow himself [sic] to become aware of his self-experiences and to integrate the evidence of his senses within his self-structure’ (Tolan, 2003: 110).<\/p>\n

It is human to hold introjected values<\/strong>. Counsellors are looking out for signs of introjected values in clients, but they too may subject to these.<\/p>\n

The secret to identifying and dealing with them is good self-awareness, gained through personal development and supervision.<\/p>\n\t

Example<\/h3>\n\t

An example of where a counsellor’s introjected values may enter the counselling room is given by Tolan (2003: 67-68).<\/p>\n

She describes a situation in which a female client, Bernice, is describing the difficulties she is experiencing having her ageing mother living with her, her partner and children, James and Sophie. She adds that Helen has begun to stay out late to avoid the tension.<\/p>\n

The counsellor may have:<\/p>\n

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This could lead to the counsellor feeling fearful of clarifying with Bernice who Helen is, and so make it harder to be fully in the client’s frame of reference and to accompany her in her difficulties.<\/p>\n

If the counsellor had made no progress during training in tackling those introjected values, they might even have denied the experience (e.g., wondered whether Helen might be Bernice’s sister) or distorted the experience (e.g., heard ‘Helen’ as ‘Alan’).<\/p>\n\t\t

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References<\/h4>\n

Feltham C and Dryden W (1993) Dictionary of Counselling<\/em>, Whurr Publishers<\/p>\n\n

Merry T (2012) ‘Classical Client-Centred Therapy’ in Sanders P (ed.) The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation<\/em>, PCCS Books<\/p>\n

Rogers C (1951) Client-Centered Therapy<\/em>, Constable<\/p>\n

Tolan J (2003) Skills in Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy<\/em>, Sage<\/p>\n

Wolf N (2015) The Beauty Myth<\/em>, Vintage Classics<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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