User:Samuel Ochieng

Skiatism. A [[[psychological]]] approach that bases an understanding of [[[counselling]]] through the use of [symbolism] in a [transcultural] dimention,projected into an [Intra cultural] [paradigm.] It fuses ideologies of [C.G.Jung] and his concepts of symbols.

Symbols are [culturally] oriented in terms of interpretation, but there are those that have become [intra-culturally] formulated.

As a word, ‘symbol’ takes its roots from the [Greek] word symbolon and it is usually taken to mean a sign from which a person can recognize or imply something. The word itself consists of the syllable ‘sym’ which gives the inference of together, common. The second syllable, ‘bolon’, depicts that which has been thrown: I throw. To join the two ideas together, you arrive at where things are thrown together.

Looked at in a different light, the symbol is part of a whole, it gives a greater value to the whole because it enhances the whole towards a wholesomeness – a bonding of a part to a greater whole, giving a greater value. Giving rise to the concept of [Skiatism].

Skiatism is then the a working format of a Psychological approach, that opens out to an understanding of individual cultures through the use of stories. These [Stories], as told by a story teller, are dependent on the background of the story and the story teller, and therefore no two stories are ever told or retold in the same manner although they may depict the same event.