HOW TO PREVENT THE COLLISION OF THE TWO WORLDS WE LIVE

By RICARDO LCSW ACSW GILLISPIE PHD

This book provide a perspective of the healing process from emotional hurt and pain through mobilizing the power of “Self ”. The content is a parallel of theology and cognitive psychology. In order to escape from being a victim of the ills presented by the world we live, “Self-Empowerment” is emphasized. Changing circumst

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Mulberry Books
• Release date: Mar 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952405198

RICARDO LCSW ACSW GILLISPIE PHD

DR. GILLISPIE has over forty-five years in the field of mental health as a practitioner, administrator, consultant and program designer. He is currently part owner and CEO of a private mental health practice specializing in Marriage/Family Counseling and Cognitive/Affective Disorders. As a Psychotherapist, Dr. Gillispie has seen an array of patients with a multitude of problems and disorders. His therapeutic framework is primarily cognitive therapy. He emphasize in order to overcome emotional despair, the person must change the way they are thinking. As a Christian, Dr. Gillispie focus on the correlation between theology and psychology. This book provide the content of how both work together to overcome emotional difficulties. He stress the difference from emotional hurt and emotional harm. This book provide a journey on how to heal from emotional hurt and not to be destroyed by emotional harm. His conceptualization is the power of the mind over the destruction's presented by the world we live in, past and present. He has presented several mental health topics to include the following: • Techniques in the Provision of Group Psychotherapy Clinical and Therapeutic Dynamics in the Facilitation of Group Psychotherapy • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • Efficacy of Mental Health Services in Corrections • Mental Health Treatment for Segregated Offender • Social Work Standards of Practice in Psychiatric Hospitals • Stress Management Workshops • Treatment for Intensive Outpatient Senior Citizens • Barriers for African Americans in Obtaining Mental Health Services in the Rural South He has co-authored the following publications: • Hospitalized Africa American Men with Mental Illness: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and • Intent to Comply with Aftercare. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, Volume 6, Number 3, winter 2002. • Hospitalized African American Mental Health Consumers: Some Antecedents to Service Satisfaction and Intent to Comply with Aftercare. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume 75, Number 2, pp. 254- 261, 2005.

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How to Prevent the Collision of the Two Worlds We Live.

Copyright © 2020 by Ricardo Gillispie, LCSW, ACSW, PHD.

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Acknowledgments

Life is a journey. I acknowledge God for being my Helper and Comforter through the Holy Spirit in dealing with and conquering obstacles I have faced in my life. I also thank my wife Catherine for being the Supporter of all the endeavors I have sought to accomplish. She has provided me encouragement to maintain focus and not give up on my life pursuits. For that, I am forever thankful.

Introduction

Our world consists of many trials and tribulations. They are presented at every stage of our life. Sometimes these ills cause us to become emotionally overwhelmed and destroy our will to overcome or live. These tribulations may be of past or present situations causing emotional hurt. We become so infested by our troubles that life stop being life, but a living hell of despair and miseries. We allow our miseries to define us to the point where we lose sight of who we are and our self-perception. There seems no escape from our miseries and we feel destine there is no hope. We can decide that life is not fair. We may ask the question; Why me Lord? The answer is in Matthew 5:45 as part of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says this about God the Father: He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust (ESV).

There’s a difference between being hurt and being harmed. One can heal from hurt, but being harmed totally destroys every fiber of our being. Harm means not putting forth the motivation and effort of self-empowerment. This book provides a cognitive process and opportunity to discover that healing from the ills of the world we live in, really exist within us. It is a combination of theological and psychological concepts. We can’t control the world around us, but the greatest power we have is to control the world within ourselves. Man should grow from the inside out, not from the outside in.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I Life is not fair: It’s not a birth right

Chapter II The Existence of Man

Chapter III Self-Actualization

Chapter IV Types of Self-Victimization

Chapter V Identity

Chapter VI Sense of Self-Consciousness and Character

Chapter VII The Healing Process

Chapter VIII Renewing Your Mind for Inner Peace

Chapter IX The Beginning of Your End

References

Chapter I

Life is not fair: It’s not a birth right

The dynamics of the environmental conditions surrounding a newborn is vitally important in determining the newborn’s identity. The world they are introduced to can impact the rest of their life. That introduction determines the multifaceted developmental process of self-concept and the impressions of their surrounding world. Parents or parent substitutes are the ones who initially offer those determinants. Once leaving the care, security and nurturing environment of the hospital, parents are the extended resource for guiding the developmental process. Some enter a world introducing them to physical and/or emotional pain. For these individuals, the beginning of unhealthy self-concept and the world they live are perceived.

At this point, life can be a struggle. Some individuals reach a point of being sick and tired of being sick and tired and seek professional care. Others stay in a world of misery resulting in catastrophic behaviors including death. Some think the only way to stop the madness of emotional pain is to stop life itself. This book offers the reader a