Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner!

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Congrats! You are invited to a dinner party; however, this isn’t just any old dinner party. This is a dinner party where all the party guests are famous psychologists, the preeminent leaders of their field. During the party, a murder will take place–oops, wrong game. At this dinner party, the host will introduce a client that he is having problems with and in which he would like your input. Acting as one of the particular doctor’s below, you will provide him with some advice on the causes and treatments of his patient. Of course, you will have to defend your perspective from the other “pushy” psychologists who believe that their perspective is completely right and your perspective is totally wrong. Bring your wine, a dish to pass and your kick boxing apparel–the doctors are in and coming to dinner and things might get ugly!

General Directions:

This week we will be putting on our doctor hats (wait, a minute doctor’s don’t wear hats!). Okay, this week we will be putting on our doctor coats! You’ll be given a case study to analyze and your job will be to do so as a doctor from a particular contemporary perspective. You will be expected to play the role of ONE of the following doctors, each of whom represent a different contemporary perspective on mental illness:

 

Dr. Rogers (Humanist);
or
Dr. Kildare (Biological).

You will role-play that doctor (changing the gender if you wish!), using that perspective and only that perspective to analyze Mrs. T’s case described below. More specifically, in your posts you will be asked to:

introduce your character in such a way that the introduction provides the reader with a brief summary of your perspective and
identify the causes for Mrs. T’s problem based upon your perspective—the later part is very important because the perspective you choose will only allow you to identify particular causes, those that are consistent with your perspective. Example, a behaviorist would never mention cognitions or mental activity as a cause of a person’s behavior because s/he doesn’t believe in looking into the “black box” of the mind. There are always multiple causes for any problem, however, disregard any causes that are not consistent with your perspective. And
describe how your perspective would treat Mrs. T and resolve her problem.

In this discussion board, you will be working in smaller, assigned groups, each with about 5 members. You will see your group automatically when you click on your discussion board. As was the case last week, you will only be able to see your discussion and respond to your discussion group members.

Please create only one threaded discussion (posts and replies) for each doc!

You will be expected to make at least two original postings and two response postings to your classmates. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT EVERY ONE IN YOUR GROUP HAS AT LEAST 2 RESPONSES TO THEIR POSTINGS. This means that you will not get credit for your additional response if you responded to a post that has more than 2 prior responses so please make sure to select a posting that doesn’t have 2 responses for credit.

The Case Study of Mrs. T

Mrs. T is a 53-year-old woman with three children in their mid-20s who comes in at their insistence. A year ago, her husband of 30 years left her for a younger woman. Since then, she has been unable to mobilize herself. She has felt very sad every day since the separation and has become incapable of making decisions about what she should do about any aspect of her life (e.g., whether to continue living in her house, whether to seek a job, how to handle her finances, and even what clothes to buy). She is constantly begging her children for the advice and emotional support that her husband had previously provided. Her children love her and understand her plight but are becoming increasingly annoyed by her inability to stand on her own two feet. Friends who had previously been very fond of Mrs. T have also been put off by her constant demands for assistance and have begun to avoid her.

Most of Mrs. T’s friends and acquaintances cannot understand why she is so devastated by her husband’s desertion. He had been chronically unfaithful, impossible to please, and was always very tight with money. He did, however, make all the important decisions for Mrs. T. He decided how they would spend and invest their money, where they would live, when and where they would go on vacation, when they would eat out and where, what movies they would see, whom they would entertain, and where their children would go to school. Mr. T always shopped with her and even helped her choose all her clothes. She never spoke out against his decisions because she felt that he would make her feel foolish and even possibly leave her.

After he left, Mrs. T collapsed, felt unable to do any thing and lapsed into a helpless funk. Mrs. T has expressed extreme sadness since her husband left her. She no longer goes to the movies or out to dinner the way she used to because every thing reminds her of the years she spend with her husband. She has been under such stress, that she has lost 20 pounds. On occasion, she is able to get a full night’s sleep but she often finds herself waking up and crying uncontrollably. Lately, she has found help in taking sleeping pills to help her get to at least a few hours of sleep. There have been many occasions in which she has felt so lonely and upset that she believes that the world would be better off without her.

Mrs. T has had to visit the doctor on several occasions this year due to erratic behavior and her sleep disturbances. She has recently been prescribed Valium to calm her down when she becomes anxious about the events of her life. Mrs. T has decided that it is time to see a psychiatrist to finally begin to accept that her life as she has known it is no longer in existence.

POSTING ONE: Let’s Get This Party Started!

For this exercise you will be posing as one of the above doctors.

Select the doctor you want to be and imagine that you have just walked into a dinner party and you have to introduce yourself to the party host. What would your doctor say as a way of introducing him/her self? How would s/he be dressed?

Your opening comments should reflect the perspective you are representing. It should communicate at least five important beliefs or assumptions about your perspectives; beliefs that are the essence or main idea of your perspective. Feel free to be creative, clever and funny.

DO NOT SELECT A DOCTOR THAT SOMEONE ELSE IN YOUR GROUP HAS SELECTED.

If you want to ensure that you get a particular doctor & perspective, you are free to simply post the doctor early and follow up, by the deadline, with the introduction. If all 5 docs are already chosen, you should select a different theorist from the listed perspectives (e.g., Ellis instead of Beck; Jung instead of Freud).

Make sure to name the doctor & perspective in the subject line of your posting.
Make sure to start a new discussion thread for every new doctor that joins the dinner party.

EXAMPLE OF POST ONE (2 parts):

Subject: Dr. Freud & Psychoanalysis

Part 1:

Dr. Freud is a tall, lanky hipster with dark, gelled hair. He walks into the party wearing a red velvet smoking jacket, a silky, shiny black button down shirt, open suggestively at the chest, and black skin tight pants with black snake skin leather healed boots.

Part 2:

“Hi! Dawling! What a wonderful party! Sigy here! You remember me from Mesmer’s party, don’t you! What a sleeper that was! You don’t mind it if I help myself to your wine and, what is that, a crab cake! Thanks! I’m so orally fixated today (IDEA 1). I just can’t take it!!!! My ID is just out of control (IDEA 2), must be that time of the month! Just kidding there! But just don’t get me started on my Super Ego (IDEA 3)! Ooh we! She’s such a little b—h, but she gets the job done. I mean, look at me! Don’t I look wonderful! Yes, I’ve lost 10 pounds since November, although I’ve started smoking again. You haven’t seen my date, have you? He looks just like my Dad! A little Oedipus action going on (IDEA 4), if you know what I mean! What, so shocked! Well, honey, you need to get a life or I should say give your little ID a little break! You are suppressing it to death (IDEA 5)! You know that all Super Ego and no ID makes Jane a dull gal (IDEA 6)! Ha ha! Oh, I get it. You must be one of those anal types, can’t let go of any thing, huh (IDEA 7)? Your parents must have been sooo strict with the potty training (IDEA 8). On second thought, you’d better keep your drink. I think you need it more than me. Drink up, Dawling! Ciao!” (Note: Make sure to designate the 5 ideas as demonstrated.)

POSTING TWO: Dinner Table Talk

Now that you’ve selected and introduced your doctor, you are ready to sit down to dinner with the rest of the dinner guests.

After the first course of Caesar salad with a Spanish twist and some small talk with your fellow doctors, your host, Dr. Travis (that’s me!), introduces the purpose of the dinner party. He has a patient, Mrs. T, who is troubling him. He’s not sure what is causing Mrs. T’s problem or what to do about it. He asks you and your fellow guests, the preeminent doctors of your respective fields, to weigh in on the case.

Using the voice and mannerisms of the doctor character you created in your first post, and using the perspective you selected, you should identify the cause(s) of Mrs. T’s problem and describe the best course of treatment. Remember your causes and treatments must be grounded in your perspective.

Length is roughly 2 paragraphs.

EXAMPLE OF POST TWO

Subject: Post 2–Sigy is on the case Hey, Dr. T, this Mrs. T, she’s, what, a “friend” of yours–hint, hint?!? That’s what all my patients say–it’s always a friend! Total denial, but that’s the least of her problems!! Let’s see. Well obviously the woman has trouble because of…(I’m not going to go into Freud’s perspective here because that is your job except to say that the cause and treatment should be consistent with his theory’s views on mental illness.)

TWO RESPONSE POSTINGS: The Gloves Come Off!

So what happens when you get a bunch of famous know it all’s in the same room? You guessed it—trouble!

We’ve finished the main course. The wine’s been drunk. Coffee and dessert, a decadent little chocolate ganache, is making the rounds. Every one has put forth their perspectives on Mrs. T’s problem and now the fun begins! Your job here is to, in the character of your doctor and his/her psychological perspective, explain why every one else’s perspective is limited–a charming bunch of dinner guests we are!

You will post responses to 2 different doctors. In your posts, you will:

list one advantage or strength of the other doctor’s psychological perspective (just to be polite), and one disadvantage or limitation of their perspective.
You also list at least one way in which your perspective is similar to and different from his/her perspective.
Make sure your discussion doesn’t bring up any of the same pros or cons of that perspective that another classmate has identified.

EXAMPLE OF RESPONSE POST

Now, Skinny, if I can call you that? No, okay, fine. Dr. Skinner. So uptight! Now, you keep talking all evening about behavior–reinforce this, punish that–but come on, are you really serious when you say you don’t care about her mental life!….For this post to be a good one, Sigy would have to clearly identify one limitation and one strength of the behaviorist’s approach and one way in which his perspective is similar to and different from Skinner’s behaviorist school.

Adapted from S. Glick & M. Tamas/used with permission

Additional Comments

The DFs are suppose to be YOUR ORIGINAL reflections or thoughts—not from other sources (such as the internet). However, if you do paste a brief quote, make sure to give credit or cite your source! If not, then you have plagiarized (and will be penalized!) (Links to an external site.)

PLEASE RESPOND TO THESE 2 STUDENTS

Subject: Dr. Skinner and his Psychoanalysis

 

Part 1:

Dr. Skinner walks into the dinner party cleaning his dark glasses with a handkerchief. He is dressed in a cream-colored sweater, matched with black dress pants. He walks in quite awkwardly and shakes the hand of the host, Dr. Travis. In his hand is a bottle of wine he reluctantly brought.

Part 2:

“Hello there! I uh well here you go. Brought you some wine. Oh, my coat? Yes, here you go. On my way over here, I almost ran over a pigeon but he seemed to fly away towards his target of food just in time (Idea 1). It was nervewracking but that pigeon seemed as if he was on a mission for those pellets. Enough about the pigeon, how has the night been so far? I see Dr. Freud in the corner, smoking his cigar. It seems as though his response to smoking is as conditioned as my eye blinking (Idea 2). How he can smoke that death stick, I have no idea. I remember trying to smoke when I was younger to see what my dad would say (Idea 3) but I never liked it. How about you, ever thought about smoking? I see that it is hard for you to quit. It must give you immediate pleasure (Idea 4) that you can’t get elsewhere. Oh, thank you! This sweater was actually bought by my wife. She wanted to be here tonight but was held up. She is training our kid on the toilet and it has become such a hassle we can’t take him anywhere. The positive reinforcement (Idea 5) will hopefully prove to be useful. Anyways, please excuse me I have to say hello to Dr. Freud. I must talk to him about smoking INSIDE. We will chat some time later tonight.”

STUDENT #2

Subject: Dr. Beck & Psychoanalysis

Part 1:

Dr. Beck is a man that doesn’t particularly pay too much attention to the details of his appearance nor does he care how others might perceive him based on these looks. He enters the party wearing wearing brown slacks and a navy blue dress coat that are far to big for him. Upon inspection he looks as though he had just woken up and put on the first thing he saw as well as his hair shows signs of a feeble attempt at being combed. Once Dr. Beck removes his coat you can see his slightly wrinkled off white dress shirt that is closed at the top with a brown polyester bow tie. On his feet he is wearing a pair of BLACK penny loafer dress shoes that clearly do not go with the navy and brown ensemble he chose to wear to this event. Yet this does not seem to phase him one bit as he shows compete comfort in who is and what he is wearing.

Part 2:

“Hello! Hello! Thanks for having me! It is great to see all of these wonderful faces again. Do you mind if I make myself a drink? How many has Freud had already? Can’t wait until all that alcohol kicks in or as I like to call it “truth serum” haha. He never could hold the sauce even in his younger days. It really does makes for some great conversation watching those cognitive feelings (IDEA 1) come out. Thank goodness he is in a room full of brilliant brains including yours that can help him solve any deep problems before they get blown out of proportion. (IDEA 2). Anyway these appetizers are amazing! So tell me more about your daughter how has she been doing? Last we talked I know you were dealing with her issues of Bulimia Nervosa. I am glad that you were able to find the source of her irrational attitude and helped her foster better habits. (IDEA 3) I am sure having her open up and reducing all those negative feelings (IDEA 4) helped a lot. Ok, enough shop talk for the moment. Looks like I need another drink or 2. Would you like me to get you one or are you still not drinking because you think it will turn you into an alcoholic? Remember. Everything in moderation I say! What do we have to do to change your belief and attitude? (IDEA 5) No judgement though my friend. I am still grateful for you and for this amazing party with great food and drinks. The night is young and let us see where it takes us shall we!”

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