Psych Book Quote

"His eyes fell. To the carpet. To the book. To his hands. A great silence loomed up which was both divisive, putting infinity between us, and binding. For a boy who said nothing he certainly left nothing unsaid" (Hayden 32). I used this quote from Murpheys Boy because it ties to psychology in so many ways. Psychologist can be very frusterated when the patient is shy and says nothing. But good psychologist use that to their advantage. They will use the silence and observe it and predict why they are silent and go from there. The psychologist in Murpheys Boy is a very good psychologist. She uses the silence to her advantage and finally opens up Murphey and they wind up becoming great friends. The goal of a psychologist is to first break down the "infinante walls" and become closer to the patient so you can help them. It takes the psychologist in Murpheys Boy to do that but finally she does and it works very well. It takes the psychologist a very long time because Murphey has seen a lot. He saw his mother and father murderd in front of him. At first he is silent about the whole thing. After a lot of persistance from Kate Green, the psycholgist, finally Murphey opens up and he fells better after talking to the psychologist. I used this picture because it was two people communicating in a very basic form.