Thesis (D. Educ.)--Indiana University, 1967. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-105).

Although there is a resurgence of interest in the self, few studies focus on researching the self-in-context. This study fills the void of such omissions by studying how the self reconstitutes itself in relation to context, or discourse. The study begins with the development of a model of the self that is contextual, evolving, multiple and discursive. Consistent with this perspective of the self, a feminist social constructionist methodology was developed. Such a methodology was developed and implemented in order to more fully understand how (a) discourses are interpreted by individuals and groups of people, (b) people author their lives in relation to certain discourses, and (c) identities, or subjectivities are claimed. The study focuses on language—metaphors, rules, norms, and discursive practices. Concepts such as position, scripts, discourse, subjectivity, and discursive practices were used to understand discourse and reconstituting self. There are three components to this study including (a) a personal narrative of one woman's recovery, (b) an analysis of dominant discourses surrounding the discourse of recovery, and (c) a narrative of the research process including the discursive relationships of the researcher. By focusing on these various layers of experience, the interrelationships between self and discourse are highlighted. The form of the study is narrative as it weaves the participant’s story of recovery with the researcher's relationships to the discourses she has claimed. It is also metaphorical in that it highlights metaphors embedded within various treatment discourses. Through such metaphors, voice, ambivalence, and agency are examined as they relate to the shared experiences of both the participant and the researcher. The study concludes by highlighting difficulties when studying discourse, when constituting oneself within discourse, and when scripting oneself into a particular subjectivity. / Graduate

A three month meditation programme based on Joseph Goldstein's (1976) instructions and discourses given at a Vipassana meditation retreat was implemented among four 17 year old white English-speaking school girls at a private non-racial co-educational high school in South Africa. The meditation experiences of all four subjects were noted, hut only one subject's meditative experiences were documented and used as a case study to explore their use as a tool for personal growth within the framework of ego-psychology and transpersonal psychology. It is concluded that the subject, who meditated on a daily basis, experienced personal growth primarily from the ego-psychology perspective and, it is interesting to note, less so from the transpersonal perspective. Three bypotheses have been put forward for this. Firstly, the actual length of the meditation programme may have been too short, and secondly, the daily meditation sessions too brief to facilitate a process of personal growth and development from within the trans personal psychology framework. Thirdly, the subject was an adolescent school girl and thus may not have been developmentally ready in terms of reaching a level of cognitive, emotional, social and spiritual maturity necessary to experience identification to the transpersonal self.

It is felt that additional research concerning the relationship of mental health to sociometric status is needed in view of the fact that Mill concluded that the Rorschach variables were not sufficiently sensitive for group comparison. The POI, an objectively scored test, was selected for the purpose of the present study.

No description available.

No description available.

No description available.

No description available.

No description available.

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of marathon group counseling and traditional group counseling in producing certain growth changes in their particular group members. The purpose of this study was to compare the relative effectiveness of these two group counseling methods and their relationship in producing changes in self-actualization, self-concept, and level of dogmatism.