Film Review: Going Through Couple's Therapy

The scene begins with Jake Amy’s husband very upset pacing around the room. What I found analyzing Jake and Amy and how it pertains to self-disclosure. Is that using the Johari Window Jake is showing a hidden or unknown behavior. For example Jake is pacing around the room very angry wondering where his wife is and why she has not arrived to their schedule therapy appointment. As he is pacing he calling everyone that would know the whereabouts of his wife. I don’t think Jake realizes how angry and controlling his behavior is. Next his wife Amy finally arrives to the appointment very causal and normal. She does not notice or care that her husband is fuming. I think that maybe she has an unknown way that she processes Jake angry behavior and she behaves very normal. As they begin there therapy session they are using several methods of self-disclosure. Amy uses Reciprocity when she begins to speak about why she does not want to have the baby that they have been trying for. When she discloses she does not want to put her life on hold again for another baby. When, she starts explaining how it is going to affect her emotional and physically. She is using Self-Clarification and Self-Validation. Because her Reciprocity did not go well
The tension seems too great between them. They are showing stages of the Knapp’s Model. They have begun Circumscribing, Stagnation, and the avoiding process. They will ultimately terminate if they can’t reverse the process with better verbal and non-verbal communication. I find this chapter and Knapp’s model very interesting. I found myself in the same situation of Jake and Amy and the process occurred exactly how the book shows. Again, I am pretty certain that they are separating since couples’ therapy happens sometimes much too late after the resentment and hurt has been caused for