Psychological Centration
“In psychology, centration is the tendency to focus on one salient aspect of a situation and neglect other, possibly relevant aspects. Introduced by the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget through his cognitive-developmental stage theory, centration is a behaviour often demonstrated in the preoperational stage” Wikipedia
The aspect of centration in our adult lives from the basic citizen up to the highest levels of government is very real. While mostly harmless it can be extremely harmful and makes many many people make decisions based on a faulty premise.
The place that some of the most harmful centration is caused is in the doctor's office, including psychiatrists and psychologists. The problem can differ from practitioner to practitioner, usually depending on years of practice and experience and acknowledgment of personal centration and the degree to openness to new ideas that may make better sense than previously held ideas.
The place that some of the most harmful centration is caused is in the doctor's office, including psychiatrists and psychologists. The problem can differ from practitioner to practitioner, usually depending on years of practice and experience and acknowledgment of personal centration and the degree to openness to new ideas that may make better sense than previously held ideas.
The experienced practitioner that has not acknowledged their own centration is likely to base opinions about their clients on memory of other clients and take things out of context concerning those clients and what previous professionals have written into the clients file, if the practitioner believes that they are extremely capable of discerning the psychological aspects and reasons for experience and action of their clients they are very likely to base their opinion on one salient aspect of that client's life, which is absolutely not helpful and can lead to dangerous arrangements for the clients mental and physical well being and to further entrench that professional in their personal centration.
The new practitioner that has not had much experience in practice and has not looked specifically at their personal centration is likely to commit centration on the aspect of either the books they learned their practice from or from their mentors.
Our senses limit us in how much information we can take in at any given moment. Trying to understand another human being and from what motivation they act is limited by purely inward senses and aspects. Namely memory and we attempt to couple that with what we are hearing and seeing about the particular individual in front of the practitioner.
The new practitioner that has not had much experience in practice and has not looked specifically at their personal centration is likely to commit centration on the aspect of either the books they learned their practice from or from their mentors.
Our senses limit us in how much information we can take in at any given moment. Trying to understand another human being and from what motivation they act is limited by purely inward senses and aspects. Namely memory and we attempt to couple that with what we are hearing and seeing about the particular individual in front of the practitioner.
Through 25+ years of being a client in the mental health system, it is my consistent experience that practitioners are given to judging books by the cover and neither have the willingness nor desire to actually read the contents from within. This is not across the board but is to a very high degree the mentality that permeates our highest professionals. Rare is the person who in practice attempts to see the whole picture before casting judgment and giving a sentence of how to deal with that judgment.
Centration seems to compel us humans to mistrust one another to a high degree. Centration is the leading cause to all forms of segregation, be it racism, ableism, sexism, xenophobia, etc.
Centration is the leading cause to individuals being so easily swayed by propaganda. When someone holds a belief, especially in the area of what their government ought to be doing for them or their community at large it is really easy to produce a small portion of information that they would believe to be true because of the centration they have on a given topic, this is the way of propaganda and the easiest way to set people at odds.
Centration is the easiest way to cause cognitive dissonance. And it is a human desire to get away from what caused cognitive dissonance so its easier to conform to psychological centration.
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