Contradiction/counseling with attention away from distress
Validation
Complete Appreciation/Reality Agreement
Intermittent/chronic patterns
Identifications
Dramatizing vs. discharging
"Who's in Charge" in The Human Situation
Feelings are not a reliable guide to action/holding directions outside of session/ addictions/ "Logic of Being Completely Logical" in The Human Situation
Choosing Not to be Restimulated
Counseling on Physical Distress
"Nature of the Learning Process" in The Human Situation
"Necessity of Long-Range Goals" in The Human Situation
Oppression/liberation generally
Racism
Classism
Sexism
Men's Oppression
Identity - "claim it, discharge it, throw it away"
Counseling with Commitments
Reclaiming Power
"Don't Take it Personally" in A Better World
"The Central Importance of Contradiction" in A Better World
Exchange of Roles
Keeping counseling notebooks
A Rational Theory of Sexuality and Counseling on Early Sexual Memories (Pamphlets)
Relationships/frozen needs
Counseling children/family work
"You & Me, Counselor," from "An Exciting New Counseling Approach" in The Kind, Friendly Universe, page 47
Generalized understatement
The Enjoyment of Leadership
RC Literature as a Tool for Re-emergence
Bringing Friends into RC
The Guidelines/The RC Community
"Give Up False Expectations and 'Disappointment'" in Start Over Every Morning, page 3, or Present Time, No. 72
A Possible List of Fundamentals Class Reading Assignments
Fundamentals Manual (assigned over a couple of weeks)
"Counseling with Attention Away from Distress"
"The Complete Appreciation of Oneself" in The Human Situation
article on the Reality Agreement in The Kind, Friendly Universe, pages 23 and 39
"The Nature of the Learning Process" in The Human Situation
"A Fourth Point" in Start Over Every Morning, page 131
"Who's in Charge" in The Human Situation
"The Logic of Being Completely Logical" in The Human Situation
"Flexible Human in the Rigid Society" in The Human Situation
"Human Liberation" in The Human Situation
Articles from The Upward Trend on oppression and liberation
"Discussion Towards a Classless Society" in A Better World
The Liberation of Asians
Internalized Oppression
"The Chronic Patterns of Classism" in A Better World
"The Discharge of Patterns of White Racism by White Co-counselors" in A Better World
Journal of their choice (to be reported on in class)
The Liberation of Men
A Rational Theory of Sexuality
Counseling on Early Sexual Memories
Relationship handouts
How Parents Can Counsel Their Children (pamphlet - first part)
"The Frontiers of Co-Counseling" in A Better World
"Don't Take it Personally" in A Better World
"The Central Importance of Contradiction" in A Better World
"Commitment to the Upward Trend" in A Better World
"On the Trail of Powerlessness" in A Better World
"Counseling as a Tool for Freeing a Person of Particular Physical Distress Symptoms or Particular Kinds of Non-Survival Behavior" in A Better World
"The Necessity of Long-Range Goals" in The Human Situation
"Bringing Friends Into Co-Counseling" in The Human Situation
"Give Up False Expectations and 'Disappointment'", by Harvey Jackins, in Start Over Every Morning, page 3, or Present Time, No. 72, page 36