Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Now a person of meager charity might muse, “Out of ideas, so steal a quote from a Comment? Sad!”

This being the Wakefield Doctrine, our response is to …laugh.

AP Level New Readers!! This is a pop quiz. You have all the information, (including the two test questions), so have at it. Remember how we’ve said in the past, “With the Wakefield Doctrine, you can’t get it wrong? We lied. The first Question (“Out of Ideas…”) is identifiable with which of the three predominant worldviews. (ok one Hint: it is about the intent of the statement as much as the tone.)

And, the second: for extra credit identify the personality type referenced by the first person plural (‘our’).

Pencils….down!

To our topic.

From TToT Hostinae, cai, comes the questionette:

When a personality sleeps and dreams, do they dream in their predominant personality or does their recessive personality trait take over to play the dream?

Good question.

(…wait for it)

Next Question?

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We would suggest that, since the ‘personality’ in cai’s Comment, is, in Doctrine terms refers to one of three characteristic relationships maintained by the individual with the world around them and the people who make it up. So the Doctrine’s  ‘answer’ needs to be: ‘Sure! Of course! Why not?’ Have you never had a dream of being something really weird like…. we don’t know, a wolf or a ghost, the captain of the football team or a member of the opposite gender?‘

lol no! we are being serious.

Back in grad school days, (being a clark with a secondary scottian aspect we won’t insult anyone who doesn’t guess Psych major lol), we favored Fritz Perls (or, at least, our undergrad-level understanding of it. Historical context: keep in mind this was the late ’60s early ’70s. If you had any ambition for a social life in the dorms, you totally needed to have your ‘I had the strangest dream last night…. What do you think it means?’ game on. Seriously! Without a straw-wrapped bottle of Mateus rosé, at least two purple candles and a semester’s supply of sandalwood incense in your room (along with a James Taylor album) you were in for a lonely and celibate four years.

We will stop now.

Funny thing about your question; it triggered a pre-Doctrine observation. At the time I started grad school, Robert Carkhuff became all the rage in the psych dept. Did we mention that we were a clark in those days? Our response was to reject the notion that most of the professors were totally embracing his approach. That, as we now say in the 21st Century, totally triggered me! lol no, seriously. We rejected what we took to be a complete, mindless, uncritical, not-my-personal-favorite-school of therapy/counseling over all the others. We took offense at blind allegiance to one approach.

Needless to say, we only made it halfway to a Masters degree.

Damn! There’s a whole post right there: How the Wakefield Doctrine might have changed the course of my professional life!!

Who knew?

Thanks cai!

*a pronoun, sorta