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<blockquote class="definition">Insight is sudden understanding or discovery arising as a consequence of a [[Connection Experience]]. '''Insight''' is the sudden realization of a truth, or the deeper realization of an already known truth, or the sudden solution to a previously intractable problem. Insight is a consequence of the [[Enhanced Intellectual Function]] that attends [[Connection Experience]]s.  
<blockquote class="definition">'''Insight''' is sudden understanding or discovery. Insight can be directed at the self (self-understanding), at others, at things (insight into the workings of a car engine) or of nature and the cosmos itself. Insights can be spontaneous, can arise as a consequence of a [[Connection Experience]], or can be facilitated in supportive therapeutic relationships.<ref>Rogers, C. R. “The Development of Insight in a Counseling Relationship.” ''Journal of Consulting Psychology'' 8, no. 6 (1944): 331–41. 1945-01325-001, pp. 331–41. APA PsycArticles. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061513</ref>  Insight is a consequence of the [[Enhanced Intellectual Function]] that attends [[Connection Experience]]s.  
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==Notes==
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=== Carl Rogers ===
Rogers<ref>Rogers, C. R. “The Development of Insight in a Counseling Relationship.” ''Journal of Consulting Psychology'' 8, no. 6 (1944): 331–41. 1945-01325-001, pp. 331–41. APA PsycArticles. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061513</nowiki></ref>  defines insight as involving:
* '''Acceptance''' of one's impulses and attitudes (including previously repressed material);
* '''Pattern recognition'''—perceiving new relationships between behaviors and motives;
* '''Reality testing'''—a fresh perception of oneself and one's situation;
* '''Constructive planning'''—choosing new, more satisfying adjustments.
==== Conditions That Promote or Inhibit Insight ====
The crucial condition for spontaneous insight is a '''non-defensive atmosphere'''. Rogers argues that most standard therapeutic techniques actually '''arouse defensiveness''':
* '''Questions''' (probing "why?") create fear of exposure;
* '''Evaluation'''—whether criticism or reassurance—implies judgment, freezing spontaneity;
* '''Advice/suggestion''' cuts off exploration because the client must either comply or resist;
* '''Interpretation''' (even "correct" psychoanalytic interpretation) typically provokes denial unless the client has already reached the insight independently.
The only techniques consistent with an accepting attitude are:
# '''Simple acceptance''' ("M-hm," "I understand");
# '''Recognition/clarification of feeling'''—mirroring the client's emotional attitudes more clearly than they can themselves.
When clients feel deeply understood without threat, insight "bubbles through into consciousness" with a depth, sincerity, and individual quality impossible to achieve through external interpretation.
=== Alan Watts ===
In chapter one of his book [[This is It]], Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with [[Connection Experience]].<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2IYr2rv</ref></blockquote>
In chapter one of his book [[This is It]], Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with [[Connection Experience]].<ref>Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2IYr2rv</ref></blockquote>


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Insight

Insight is sudden understanding or discovery. Insight can be directed at the self (self-understanding), at others, at things (insight into the workings of a car engine) or of nature and the cosmos itself. Insights can be spontaneous, can arise as a consequence of a Connection Experience, or can be facilitated in supportive therapeutic relationships.[1] Insight is a consequence of the Enhanced Intellectual Function that attends Connection Experiences.

Concept Map

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Eupsychian Therapy >

Client-Centered Therapy >

Related LP Terms

Insight >

Non-LP Related Terms

Insight >

Syncretic Terms

Insight >

Notes

Carl Rogers

Rogers[2] defines insight as involving:

  • Acceptance of one's impulses and attitudes (including previously repressed material);
  • Pattern recognition—perceiving new relationships between behaviors and motives;
  • Reality testing—a fresh perception of oneself and one's situation;
  • Constructive planning—choosing new, more satisfying adjustments.

Conditions That Promote or Inhibit Insight

The crucial condition for spontaneous insight is a non-defensive atmosphere. Rogers argues that most standard therapeutic techniques actually arouse defensiveness:

  • Questions (probing "why?") create fear of exposure;
  • Evaluation—whether criticism or reassurance—implies judgment, freezing spontaneity;
  • Advice/suggestion cuts off exploration because the client must either comply or resist;
  • Interpretation (even "correct" psychoanalytic interpretation) typically provokes denial unless the client has already reached the insight independently.

The only techniques consistent with an accepting attitude are:

  1. Simple acceptance ("M-hm," "I understand");
  2. Recognition/clarification of feeling—mirroring the client's emotional attitudes more clearly than they can themselves.

When clients feel deeply understood without threat, insight "bubbles through into consciousness" with a depth, sincerity, and individual quality impossible to achieve through external interpretation.

Alan Watts

In chapter one of his book This is It, Alan Watts comments on the association of insight with Connection Experience.[3]

William James notes "The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one. "I've heard that said all my life," we exclaim, "but I never realized its full meaning until now."[4]

Rufus Jones: "Those who are finely sensitive to wider spheres of Reality impinging on their inner realm, and who correspond and co-operate with that More which seems continuous and conterminous with their lives, gain not only in capacity to correspond and co-operate, but also in power to overcome difficulties, and to put their lives into constructive service. We have on our hands experiences which have opened to individuals and to the race as a whole wider realms of being, experiences which have heightened the quality of life and which have given new energy of survival, and we are compelled to conclude, either that the personal self is a bottomless affair, carrying 1 Professor Royce has very well treated the social service of the Mystics in his World and the Individual, vol. i. pp. 85-87. within itself infinite unexplored chambers and undreamed of energies which sometimes come into play, or that / the personal self is bosomed on a larger Realm of Consciousness from which we draw our being into the bounds of individuality, and with which we may correspond. It has been, as we shall see, the contention of mystics in all ages that God Himself is the ground of the soul, and that in the deeps of their being all men partake of one central Divine Life. The facts, at any rate, all point in this direction."[5]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rogers, C. R. “The Development of Insight in a Counseling Relationship.” Journal of Consulting Psychology 8, no. 6 (1944): 331–41. 1945-01325-001, pp. 331–41. APA PsycArticles. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061513
  2. ↑ Rogers, C. R. “The Development of Insight in a Counseling Relationship.” Journal of Consulting Psychology 8, no. 6 (1944): 331–41. 1945-01325-001, pp. 331–41. APA PsycArticles. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061513
  3. ↑ Watts, Alan W.. This Is It (p. 18). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2IYr2rv
  4. ↑ James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature (p. 332). Kindle Edition. https://amzn.to/2SQZ7Jv
  5. ↑ Jones, Rufus Matthew. Studies in mystical religion (Kindle Locations 386-396). Kindle Edition.


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