It is necessary to put McCormack's statistics into perspective: by themselves they are good but not spectacular.
"The kids would come in, and in a matter of five or six weeks you would see the lights come on and see how their perspective on themselves and on their world would change," Mr. Dodson said.
In such an environment, women may perceive their bodies from a third-person perspective, treating themselves as objects to be looked at and evaluated.
In so doing, affected people gain an enlightening and empowering third person perspective on themselves.
The program offers a pathway forward, and a better perspective on themselves and their futures.
However, there is little doubt that a specific event can cause a person to have a memory that touches them to the core, and affects perspective on themselves, and life.
Black people do not exist in a social vacuum removed from the European and Euro-American perspective of themselves as overly sexed, lazy, incompetent, criminal, uneducated, thuggish and more.
As a result, many women internalize a male perspective of themselves, which represents not our natural sense of ourselves but a sense of ourselves being lusted after by another.
This could have implications for use in a goal-directed therapy, where patients could, from a first person perspective, experience themselves as being how they want to be as a strong motivator for successful completion of the therapy program.
They also imagined a better future perspective for themselves.
