Metacounselor
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Metacounselor
A Metacounselor is a needs-satisfying therapist. It is a therapist devoted to uncovering unmet needs and finding ways to meet them.
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Practically everyone does have peak experiences, but not everyone knows it. Some people wave these small mystical experiences aside. Helping people to recognize these little moments of ecstasy when they happen is one of the jobs of the counselor or metacounselor. Yet, how does one's psyche, with nothing external in the world to point at—there is no blackboard there—look into another person's secret psyche and then try to communicate? We have to work out a new way of communication. I have tried one. It is described in another appendix in that same book, Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, under the title "Rhapsodic Communications." I think that kind of communication may be more of a model for teaching, and counseling, for helping adults to become as fully developed as they can be, than the kind we are used to when we see teachers writing on the board. If I love Beethoven and I hear something in a quartet that you don't, how do I teach you to hear? The noises are there, obviously. But I hear something very, very beautiful, and you look blank. You hear the sounds. How do I get you to hear the beauty? That is more our problem in teaching than making you learn the ABC's or demonstrating arithmetic on the board or pointing to a dissection of a frog. These latter things are external to both people; one has a pointer, and both can look at the same time. This kind of teaching is easy; the other kind is much harder, but it is part of the counselor's job. It is metacounseling.[1]
Abraham Maslow Terms
- Aggridant
- B-Cognition
- B-Needs
- B-Realm
- B-Values
- Being-Guilt
- Big Problem
- D-Cognition
- D-Realm
- Deficiency Diseases
- Diminished Human Being
- Eupsychia
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Index
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Full Humanness
- Fusion Words
- Good Chooser
- Good Person
- Good Science
- Good Society
- Good Specimen
- Growing-Tip Statistics
- Hierarchy of Basic Needs
- Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
- Horticultural Model
- Human Diminution
- Human Motivation
- Human Potential
- Humanistic Psychology
- Inner Signals
- Intrinsic Conscience
- Jonah Complex
- Metacounselor
- Metamotivation
- Metapathology
- Motivation
- Neurosis
- Normalcy
- Normative Biology
- Peak Experience
- Plateau Experience
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Footnotes
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. New York: Viking, 1971. p. 47.