The description in this case study is clear. What occurred is when Jane was a young girl her father beat her repeatedly for being naughty. Her father thought she was being naughty but never explained it to her. Jane did not know the reasons why. Jane began to associate love with fear and no matter how hard you try, you will still fail. She realized after a developed relationship with an aunt that her father might have been wrong. She learned her father wasn’t fond of being wrong. She gained a sense of power over him and used it against him to get things she wants. Jane got married and her husband hit her for challenging him and felt guilty and begged for forgiveness and bought her things to make up for his wrongs.
There are a few different explanations in this case study. Jane associated love with fear because her own father who was supposed to love her unconditionally hurt her and she was afraid of him. She also believed that no matter how hard you try, you will still fail due to her trying so hard to please her father and get things right and couldn’t. Jane began to realize her father could not have been right because of the positive relationship she developed with her aunt. The reason why Jane had a sense of power over her father is she discovered he was scared of being wrong. She used guilt money to buy her happiness. Jane challenges her husband and gets hit. She accepts his apology and he buys her whatever she wants. Jane lacked power as a child and now challenges men as an adult to make up for the unfair balance as a child. She accepts her husband’s apology and takes the gifts and things are all better. This is a learned behavior of Jane on the nurture side.
In this case study we can predict that Jane will challenge men in her adulthood years due to the lacking experience of power as a child. Jane predicted that is she tried hard enough and got things right she would not be beaten by her father. When a man close to her in life mistreats her its clear...