He wrote that the source of personality problems is a lack of adjustment of tensions within the personality. May (2007) viewed the source of dysfunction as stemming from personality, from “creative tension”. Perhaps it is in this search of one’s self, the creation of individuality where one begins to experiment, experience, learn and apply what is deemed “normal”, where normalcy is defined by personality and by context, religion, society and culture. He then placed the individual human being in context, the social setting, within which each human being embarks on the “search of one’s self”. In his book, The Art of Counselling, Rollo May (2007) asks, “What is a human being?” May believed in traditional existentialism, that in order to understand what it is to be human, one should first determine the concept of personality – what determines personality, the freedom of personality and the individuality of personality. The functionality, and dysfunction, of each human being is co-created by the person, the tools of the person and the experiences. Each experience is determined by the human being, based on the life skills one possesses. #Inmost plot seriesEach human being endures a lifetime series of ever changing human conditions and experiences. It is a mapping of the human being, drawing out each element intrinsically woven into a detailed fabric, where the core is the individual and its patterns, the colours of external influences. “Remember, no human condition is ever permanent.” Socrates And each story told in their own unique language. Each human being, be it the CEO of a multinational company, an autistic child or a secondary school teenager, has a story to share each story a depiction of the condition of their lives at various developmental stages, their experiences in a cultural, social and personal context. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other historically, as narratives, we are each of us unique.” His simple yet powerful definition of the human condition sums up the lives of each individual client who walks into the counselling room it is non-discriminating. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Oliver Wolf Sacks, a British biologist, neurologist, psychologist, writer, who is lauded for his writings on several collections of case studies of people with neurological disorders, once said, “If we wish to know about a man, we ask ‘what is his story, his real, inmost story?’ for each of us is a biography, a story. Part 3 – A Synthesis of Three Theories Table of Contents Part 2 – A Theoretical Approach to the Human Condition Part 1 – The Human Condition – A Perspective If we wish to know about a man, we ask ‘what is his story, his real, inmost story? Oliver Wolf Sacks
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