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- Creator:
- Shahrokhshahi, Rita
- Description:
- Purpose of the Study: This thesis examines the patriarchal wounding of my Slavic mother line and follows the healing journey I took to transform wounds to enrich my self-identity in my pursuit toward wholeness Procedure: My study follows the motherline. The motherline is the maternal lineage of a woman backward through the generations. I explored the wounding of my motherline by using an autoethnographical narrative. Autoethnography is an autobiographical form of qualitative research that uses self reflection to explore personal stories and experiences within a cultural context. I used self-reflection to aid my stories and employed a Jungian psychological framework. Through the myth of Inanna, I embarked upon a metaphorical descent and met the dark goddess Ereshkigal. I relied on depth techniques to track and interpret my dreams, guide my active imaginations, and create spontaneous healing rituals. I made a pilgrimage to Montenegro to further assist my inquiries and overall depth experience. Findings: I found that healing occurs in the reflective process of sharing my journey of personal and cultural wounding. Healing is not a means to an end but is rather an ongoing process toward a quest to achieve wholeness. I found that my personal female individuation process is a continuous stream of engaging with the rhythms of life, death, and rebirth as a continuous cycle in my developmental pattern. My mother line wounds provided deep layers of meaningful experiences to happen that continue to offer value for me to expand my quest toward wholeness. Conclusions: Suffering from personal wounds affords the opportunity to examine the soul through a process of individuation. The connection with the motherline and one's cultural lineage is a way to further understand self and create wholeness. For women, the sacred feminine is a source for greater meaning. In the quest toward female individuation, a goddess-centered spirituality is an opening to assist the exploration of vast realms and qualities that lives inside every woman.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Radclyffe, Renee C.
- Description:
- Purpose of the Study: This study is an attempt to validate the importance of integrating women's issues into traditional psychology classes at a college level. Psychology, for the most part, had ignored, trivialized, and/or negated women's life experiences. All too often women are viewed as mentally unhealthy or incapable of maturing fully because of the standards set by society and by those in the psychological profession. Because of such stereotypical sex-role attitudes, it is most important to examine why such attitudes exist and to examine their origins. Procedure: I have researched two areas of female psychology: first, Freudian and feminist psychology, and second, looking at women psychologists whose contributions to the development of modern psychology have been deleted from current psychology textbooks. In part one, using literature primarily from feminist books, I chose to explore several of Sigmund Freud's concepts on female sexuality: penis envy, masochism, vaginal versus clitorial orgasm because such concepts appear to be, in part, correlated with the oppression of women. I have also commented on other Freudian theorists, and others who "broke away" from Freud's circle. In part two, I have reviewed psychology textbooks to confirm the absence of women and their contributions and have researched other feminist books to find the history of women psychologists. Findings and Conclusions: With the development of modern psychology, an attitude surfaced that still exists today, and that is that mentally healthy women are those who adhere to sex-role expectations in our society. Freud, for example, once described feminists as women who had a desire to be men. I have often heard men comment that feminists are trying to be like men or that they are dykes or castrating bitches. Because of feminist therapy, many women are challenging such attitudes by learning to understand social conditioning rather than by internalizing such conditioning that has made women feel inferior and mentally unhealthy. As students of psychology, men and women have been taught that women have not been influential in the development of modern psychology. Current textbooks in the history of psychology ignore or trivialize women's contributions. Through extensive and exhausting research, I was able to find information about many women psychologists who have now been deleted from textbooks. The integration of such information is vital to the education of today's students. While women's studies classes have attempted to fill this void, many male students and instructors believe such classes are not pertinent. this research project argues that, until textbooks are revised to include the female half of psychology, it is essential that instructors take the time to find material on women psychologists and on more positive images of female psychology and incorporate it into their lectures and reading materials.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Farris, Al’Lisha
- Description:
- Throughout my life, growing up as an African American, I desired to gain answers to where my ancestors came from. The purpose of this self-study is to explore the role ancestry and the collective unconscious may have played in answering my question of ancestry. I explore the appearance of themes and imagery in dreams and artwork, paired with depth processing methods in order to determine if the unconscious has worked to bring an intuitive connection between myself and my ancestral origins, as revealed through my ancestry test results. This work is a representation of my journey of ancestral revelation and the role of the collective unconscious in self-discovery and reconnection with my soul. My findings reveal a connection between the archetypal symbols of the serpent, the golden orb, the Sankofa and my ancestral connection to Ghana.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Constantino, Michael
- Description:
- Purpose of the Study: This thesis explores human evolution from a holistic, transpersonal, and psychospiritual perspective in attempt to answer a central question: What is necessary to restoring humanity’s relationship to nature amid our current ecological crisis? Humanity’s loss of interdependence with nature is examined within a context of trauma and an indigenous equivalent of soul loss at the individual, collective, planetary, and cosmic levels. Methods: This study utilizes peer-reviewed literature and triangulation from Jungian, indigenous, and transpersonal psychologies, which, as theoretical disciplines, offer insights that illustrate the importance of engagement with the sacred via the soul. An interdisciplinary approach is also used – drawing from the integral philosophy of Jean Gebser (1966/1986); the historical and cultural critique of Morris Berman (1981/1989); the mystery tradition of alchemy; somatic-based trauma literature; and contrasting views of traditional and contemporary science. Research methods of triangulation, reflexivity, phenomenology, and radical empiricism are used as means of measuring validity. Findings: Humanity’s lack of response to the ecological crisis may be the result of unrecognized individual and collective trauma, signified by a deepening separation from nature, loss of feeling, and symptoms of dissociation. These can be defined as traumatic conditions. When examined from an integral and psychospiritual perspective their interdependence and unconscious and transpersonal nature can be uncovered. Conclusions: This study sheds light on three areas: (1) the importance of psychospiritual and holistic considerations in human evolution, (2) a reexamination into the causes and remedies of our current ecological crisis, and (3) a reevaluation of the relevance of the psychospiritual interface, the interplay between psychological and spiritual phenomena and their involvement in the evolutionary process. The transpersonal and psychospiritual fields are often marginalized as unscientific but may be more relevant to true scientific inquiry than previously thought.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sonoma
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Wright, Joseph Galen.
- Description:
- Gibson and Levin (1976) have reported that the study of reading can be divided into three distinct time periods on the basis of general approach. For the first period, starting around the turn of the century until around 1925, the list of those who sought to investigate the nature of reading from carefully appraised theoretical positions reads like a Who's Who of early experimental psychology. The second period saw a lessening of concern for underlying theoretical issues. Attention shifted to more pragmatic ends. The main concern dealt with what method of teaching reading was the best, stirring an empirical controversy which yet remains unresolved. Currently, a third period is beginning which marks a return to previous times. The analysis of reading skills is again becoming embued with theoretical concerns. This paper hopes to borrow from the spirit of these new times. Thus theories delineating some of the constituent processes and subskills of reading will be addressed as the essential groundwork for examining the power of a relatively new test, the Spraings' Visual Discrimination Battery (1974), to measure some of those processes and subskills.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- West, Laurie Jean.
- Description:
- This study investigated the effects of attitudes toward and knowledge of overpopulation and sexism on childbearing and adoption attitudes. The subjects were 131 students drawn from three high school sophomore and three college sophomore classes. Subjects were assigned to one of three groups: a treatment group receiving a lecture on overpopulation, a treatment group receiving a lecture on traditional versus revised sex roles for women, and a control group receiving no treatment. Both prior to and following the lecture treatment, all subjects completed three surveys: an attitudes toward women scale, a population attitudes survey, and a series of questions regarding background data and childrearing plans which served as the dependent variables. Results indicated that: women receiving the sex roles lecture expected significantly fewer adopted children on the posttest; males in both treatment groups gave more thought to having natural children on the posttest than did males in the control group and more than females across all groups; and a trend indicated that college students both wanted and expected fewer natural children on the posttest than did high school students. Hypotheses regarding the effects of the two treatment groups on childbearing and adoption attitudes were not supported. Several possible explanations for this lack of support were discussed and strategies for future research were proposed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Veale, David John.
- Description:
- The understanding of the effect of densely populated settings on human experience and behavior is just beginning. In the early psychological literature, the term "crowding" was used to denote a setting that lacked "enough" space due in part to "too many" people. Many studies would place a large number of people in a setting and compare the responses of this group with a smaller group placed into the same setting. Results were then interpreted in terms of a lack of adequate space. This interpretation was incorrect for the group size changed as well as the space per person.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Thomas, Barbara.
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was the initiation of the validation procedures for the Auditory Perception Test (APT), developed in the late 1960s by Walter Ambinder, a clinical psychologist at Wayne State University. Two studies concerning the APT preceded the present one. Armstrong (1974) undertook the first phase of standardization by completing a reliability study and a factor analysis on the test. The second phase was accomplished by Adams (1975) , who revised the APT and ascertained its reliability. The Adams Revised Auditory Perception Test was not available for the present study, and therefore, this validation was concerned with the original Ambinder APT.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Woods, David Michael
- Description:
- The Japanese American elders who lived through World War II, and who were incarcerated in the American concentration camps, specifically, are nearing the end of their lives. Their experiences and thoughts are invaluable, and the window of time available to learn from them is narrowing. It is important that the entirety of their lives is qualitatively assessed, rather than solely focusing on their experiences in the American concentration camps. Reminiscence sessions were conducted with 14 Japanese American elders residing in the Central Valley of California to assess their lives pre-Pearl Harbor, the impacts of growing up in the United States during the World War II era, and how they dealt with discrimination and injustice. Grounded theory was used to arrive at themes that arose from the elders’ responses. The Japanese American elders reported a sense of multicultural acceptance in their childhood friend circles prior to the events of Pearl Harbor, which left them shocked when they were forcibly removed from their homes in California. While in the American concentration camps, the loss of family cohesion was evident due to the fractured nature of their families’ activities and duties. The trauma did not end when the camps were closed. Elders reported high levels of racism and discriminatory practices that were oftentimes emotionally scarring. These struggles were mitigated and lessened by key individuals throughout their lives who reminded them that not everyone disliked Japanese Americans. These elders maintained an admirable perspective on life by preaching family as a priority and unity as a goal despite the differences between people.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- McCarron, John.
- Description:
- Philanthropic concern for the particular problems of institutionalized elderly adults dates back to the late nineteenth century, but until recently a dearth in specialized psychological assessment devices for the aged existed. During the last decade a number of behavior rating scales and other clinical instruments were developed to describe the various behaviors, attitudes, and mental disorders of the elderly on psychiatric wards. Many institutionalized groups of younger age ranges and varying nosological categories have had the advantage of psychologically sophisticated assessment tools to abet their treatment, but psychometrics in skilled nursing care of the aged has been a neglected area. The need for a behavior rating scale designed and factored specifically for the aged residing in skilled nursing facilities has been unfulfilled.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology