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    DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships
    DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships
    DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships
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    DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships

    By Mike Kanitz

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    The chance of finding a cure for existing as a modern human and extinct ancestor without unintended consequences remains inconceivable. Helping professionals exert tremendous effort in reaching out to help others. So many theories and so little time to get it right. Therapists and counselors who facilitate others to formulate a new linguistic approach to change emotional reactions provides one option for a more secure peace of mind. More often, the brain appears wired to interrupt the best of intentions. This book explores the many ways change agents will make a difference in psychic pain. The 21st Century may require additional approaches in answering the human puzzle. The deterministic causation of the past will retain the notion of influence in relation to environment, but brain research may change our thinking in the near future. Neuroscientists are now leading the way in defining the origins of human motivation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Kanitz
    Release dateOct 16, 2015
    DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships
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    Mike Kanitz

    H. Mike Kanitz has gained insight into human motivation as a U.S. Marine, a father of five, a licensed professional counselor, a chemical addiction consultant with incarcerated youth, or engaged in private practice, and twenty plus years as a clinical supervisor. Listed in Who's Who for Child Development, he provided global consulting in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Canada, Portugal, and the United States. As a past president of the Michigan Association in Group Work, this Emeritus Professor continues to write only for the joy of challenging the thought process of the reader. Today, you will find him volunteering in community service and active as a corporate CEO.

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      DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION An Introspection of the Unknown Unknowns in Helping Relationships - Mike Kanitz

      DECODING HUMAN MOTIVATION

      An Introspection of the Unknown

      Unknowns in Helping Relationships

      H. MIKE KANITZ

      C-Worthy Corporation Publishing

      Decoding Human Motivation

      C-Worthy Corporation Publishing

      Traverse City, Michigan

      www.j-lagg.com

      cworthy@j-lagg.com

      © 2015 by C-Worthy

      Editor: Susie Harper

      Printing: The Espresso Book Machine at Michigan State University

      Printed in the United States of America

      ISBN 978-0-615-99936-4

      This composition is a tribute to the thousands of patients and clients who allowed me to witness the mystery of both positive and negative motivation as an artifact of the human condition.

      Dedicated to the hundreds of therapists and counselors who devoted time and mindful effort to the healing process.

      Table of Contents

      Section I

      Section II

      Section III

      Section IV

      Section V

      About the Author

      I

      When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?

      —John Maynard Keynes

      Introduction

      The Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has a treasure trove of sensibility to offer mental health professionals and all helping professionals in the area of behavioral economics. He uses the term unknown unknowns in his publication, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Thinking out of the box could be reframed as solving the puzzle—solving the unknown unknowns.

      The source of difficulty in counseling human beings and solving the inherent puzzles can be very complex. Almost all therapists, novice or experienced, have an initial sense of wonderment upon meeting with a new client. An example of an unknown unknown for many helping professionals is one simple fact. Ambiguity is erased if one realizes that no matter what the problem or concern, it is soon revealed as dependency. This includes depending on the professional to assist in many successful solutions to personal dilemmas.

      Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do

      The prime example of an unknown unknown is anger management. Today, well-documented textbooks and experienced college professors continue to give value to getting your anger out. This energy theory thrives even though Freud totally eliminated hostility catharsis over 100 years ago. Lemming-like helping professionals are participating in a group-think approach by actively facilitating the energy theory.

      Kahneman calls this the Illusion of Validity. In Thinking, Fast and Slow he says, It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously, but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true. Practitioners can easily figure it out by reasoning that if freely releasing anger is beneficial toward healing then we must begin to use it in prisons. When you think of facilitating violent criminals to get their anger out as a healing process, it does not seem like such a good idea anymore.

      There is no mumbo-jumbo psychological explanation for a person’s anger—a person is angry because somebody did not do things their way! An angry human being is a helpless victim. An abusive human being is a crazy-making victim (caught without the use of self-control). Anger remains a fraudulent behavior for imaginary control of one’s world; the need to control a person, place, or thing. Decoding the motivation behind anger comes with observing oneself and others acting like a god. Self-anger is the same flawed righteousness turned inward.

      Chastising oneself is nothing more than the arrogance of perfectionism. The moral compass actually functions more efficiently without shame and blame toward oneself or others. Hate the sin, not the sinner we are told.

      The English language provides a clue to the emotion by calling an angry person mad—as in I’m mad at you! Anger brings on madness. Education has totally failed to provide the association that human demand is the essence to almost all emotional disturbance. In his book Mad in America, Robert Whitaker summarizes the choices made by American psychiatry: Evidence caused by the use of drugs was simply allowed to pile up and up, then pushed away in the corner where it wouldn’t be seen. Research involving anger management must be pushed away in a corner too.

      Other than physical abuse, the victimization factor in anger is a bargain between individuals or groups as to who is the slave and who is the master. Which one gives power over emotions to the other? Teaching humans to get their anger out victimizes them as slaves to a master who controls them. The person, place, or thing they are angry at is now in control.

      All therapists still convinced that healing is part of helping clients or patients to get their anger out as a therapeutic technique may require more information. A recent Australian study confirms that anger as an unrestrained expression of emotion may trigger health problems. The risk of heart attack or stroke is more than eight times greater within a two-hour period after an angry outburst! Theory-induced blindness is often disastrous. You are invited to think slow about the anger dilemma.

      Personal Responsibility Is Not a Cultural Imperative

      Many years earlier, Albert Ellis explained his theory in Humanistic Psychotherapy: the Rational-Emotive Approach. Ellis states:

      Although it weighs biological and early environmental factors quite importantly in the chain of events that nonetheless the individual himself can, and usually does, significantly intervene between his environmental input and his emotional output, and that therefore he has an enormous amount of potential control over what he feels and what he does.

      Some unknown unknowns will not fit for everyone reading this, but they will tend to uncover the missing links that have been used to support the understanding of current theories. Another perceived unknown unknown, uncovered by Morris and Kanitz in Rational-Emotive Therapy, is the notion that Man’s capacity to neglect high-level thinking is considered part of his nature. The Nobel Laureate Kahneman and collaborator Amos Tversky will legitimize that statement while elaborating upon a Dual System of thinking proposed by prior psychologists.

      Thinking System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control. Thinking System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computation.

      The main characteristic of System 2 is said to be laziness. In other words, part of the human condition avoids high-level thinking some of the time. Thus, critical thinking (System 2) is much more than intuition (System 1) and takes more of a concerted

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