Dear Alizeh,

I apologize for the late submission. I have typed out my answers below. Since I've
read up on a lot of Jungian depth psychology,transpersonal psychology,somatic
psychotherapy, meditation and spiritual non-conventional approaches to mental
health, I have added my feedback as well. I feel it would make this a more
interactive exercise and perhaps even deepen our learning and understanding of
therapy. I hope this doesn't overburden you or interferes with the goals of our CBT
training in any way. Please let me know if it does.

1) Were any of the concepts in the above presentations new to you? If yes, state
which one(s).

2) Were any of the concepts particularly helpful to you as a practitioner? If yes,

state which one(s) and why. Your answer can be upto 100 words.

3) Which concept did you think was not explained well and why?

Video 1-
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2) The delineation of healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with emotional issues.
Overall it covers the basics that one could use to teach basic mental health to a
layperson.

3) Although I have no problems with any of the concepts presented here, I would
like to share with you a concept that I initially came across in The Presence
Process(The book i mentioned to you in my initial interview).It basically states
that our awareness flows in a certain manner,takes a certain path

Talking+Feeling-Does not reach out to the root cause

Depth Psychology:
Add pdf pages from TPP

Video 2-
Mental Illness:
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3) Mental illness is not always exclusively caused by neurochemical changes in the
brain.There is a growing body of research that points out that mental illnesses are
the manifestations of suppressed childhood traumas that are now resurfacing for
resolution. This also marries into jungian depth psychology which states that
elements of the psyche that are repressed will at one point express themselves in
the form of a neurosis.These neuroses might be even transgenerational(see links
below). By reducing mental illnesses to neurochemical imbalances, we run the risk
of ignoring the epigenetic and environmental factors that may play a role in the
development of the psyche of the child/client and therefore miss out on the actual
cause of the mental illness.

http://upliftconnect.com/intergenerational-trauma/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-
trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-
inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-
2016-by-mark-wolynn/
http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-science-of-genetic-inheritance-is-weirder-
than-we-thought
Associated video: https://youtu.be/AvB0q3mg4sQ
Video 3-
Compassionate Listening
Attentive listening- Dadirri

1) Types of Empathy, Minimizing(Don'ts of compassionate listening)

2)The types of empathy were a new concept to me. Although practicing empathy has
been sort of an natural habit of mine, it was informative to have them
deconstructed and explained separately.

Donts of Compassionate listening:

Dont give advice- Elaborate your methods
You can add the 'vampire' post

3)

Professional Help and Recovery:

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