Hello my dear fellow classmates,

We know from our daily lives as well as from numerous instances in history that people tend to dislike, judge and persecute those who are different than they are. For example, during the Armenian Genocide, the Turks found a reason to scapegoat the Armenians and brutally killed millions over the course of 25 years. Although they claim it was because the Armenians tried to help the Russians, secretly, the Turks simply did not like the Armenians because they were different and got in their way of establishing Turkey. Or take the Holocaust for example which relates more to us. The Nazis hates the Jews because they were different along with other races. Even in our day and age people constantly find reasons to kill each other and prejudice constantly exists!

In psychology, we learned that the therapist must view his subject with full positive regard, meaning that the therapist must not judge the patient no matter what he or she says. I found that a little difficult due to experience i have had with in the present as well as what i have learned. People often judge those who are different from them. It is simply human nature. Even when people say that they dont judge or try not do it is often not true. How can we therefore expect our therapist to listen to a person's deep and dark secrets and expect them not to judge? If a patient said-i used to kill little children and eat them because it made me feel better and now i want help. How are you supposed to not judge him? Even in a less severe case where perhaps a husband beats his wife sometimes. The therapist would judge him for such an action as well. How do we expect them not to?!