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(Personality) : GHMC Bengaluru
(Personality) : GHMC Bengaluru
GHMC BENGALURU
PERSONALITY
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- Risk taker and change seeker
Central, Secondary, and Cardinal
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characteristics as sociability, liveliness
and excitability. Each of these
characteristics, according to Eysenck can THEORIES ADOPTING DEVELOPMENTAL
be broken down into certain habitual APPROACH :
response.
such as dreams interpretation and free part occupies only the 1/10th portion of
association total mental life
• Sigmund freud, a famous psychologist, • This vast part remain of the mental life
first popularized psychonalysis in 1900s of human being remain hidden and
• Sigmund Freud
many of which relate to sex and
aggression
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the principle parts
• A theory of personality dynamics ,in
which conscious and unconscious This is seen as the tip of the
motivation and ego defense iceberg
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mechanisms play major role
• A theory of psychosexual development,
in which different motives and body Ex – you may be feeling thirsty at
regions influence the child at different this moment and decide to get a
stages of growth with effects persisting drink
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in the form of adult personality traits
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These three levels of the human
mind continuously clash and
compromise to give birth to one or
other types of behavioral Contains thoughts and feelings
characteristics leading to a that a person is not currently
particular type of personality aware of , but which can easily
be brought to conscious
• CONSIOUS
• If you were asked what you
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watched last night or what you
had for breakfast this morning,
Immediate awareness you would be pulling that
PERSONALITY
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process thinking
Freud believes the anatomy of our
personality • Process thinking – ego waits for the
is built around the three unified and right moment for the satisfaction of
interrelating systems desire, whereas id satisfies desires
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immediately
ID
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Resides in all level of awareness
EGO
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SUPER EGO
SUPER EGO
• Operates on moral principles
PERSONALITY
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biologically- inherited response
Personal unconscious tendency
• Collective unconscious
• Example : thinkings, feelings, and
doings by one’s ancestor being
• The archetypes
transferred from generation to
generation
• Self realization
• Contains the archetypes
• The shadow
• The Archetypes
PERSONALITY
• • Hinduism – atma
• Islam – soul
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different forms
HERO
• The dark side of the ego , cruel side of
us.
• It is represented in mythology and
• It may represent all that bad and
legends as a powerful person
mean in man but attempt to hide from
sometimes , part god, who fights
ourselves and others
against great odds to conquer or to
destroy the evil in the form of
dragons, monsters, serpents and
• Jung contended that – to be whole we
must be continually strive to know our
demons
shadow and that this is our first stage
• The image of hero touches an of courage
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archetype within us, as demonstrated
by our fascination with the heroes of Jung – it tells us everything that all
the movies, novels ,plays and human refuses to acknowledge about
television programme themselves
• The anima is a feminine image in the • He was the first major figure to break
male psyche(mind or thinking) and the away from psychoanalysis to form an
animus is a male image in the female independent school of psychotherapy
psyche(mind or thinking) and personality
• According to Jung – every male has a • Focused on how social interactions and
female in himself and every female has conscious thought influence overall
a male in herself individual growth
• Social interest
and lovers that combined to from a
generalized picture of a women
• Alfred Adler
(February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937)
• Example – person with weak eye sight
might develop interest in visual things
• Austrian psychiatrist
as a method of compensation and
thus becomes interested in reading
• Best known for
• Organ inferiority doesn't always leads
• Individual psychology to inferiority complex - which is a
• All children starts life with feelings of • Each of us shares the common goal of
inferiority because they are completely striving for superiority, even though
dependent on adults for survival there are many different ways by which
• Fictional finalism
complex as a result of feeling that he is
less important than others
• Now if the same short man lived in a • Fictional future goal which a person
culture that made no difference
between both tall and short men then aspires for
he would have never developed
inferiority complex
• Alder called – guiding self ideal
• Birth order
• Striving for superiority • Adler was the first theorist who
focused not only on a child’s parents
• It is the use of the effort to obtain for influencing the behavior but also
the child’s brothers and sisters as well
superiority over others
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• The drive motivates a person to do
The importance of the family
atmosphere and family constellation
everything perfect and complete so he Only child
may get superiority over others
• More likely to be pampered
• An innate need from the time of the • Parents have probably invested all of
birth, master motive that leads people
their love and energy into this one and
to pursue a superior or perfect society
extremely taken care of
• Style of life(life style) • Sometimes this excessive care can lead
• Each individual seeks to cope with the to anxiety filled control because the
child is the pride and joy of the parents
environment and develop superiority in
a unique way • If parents are abusive, the child will
suffer the consequences of abuse all
alone
PERSONALITY
• is a new school of psychology which • People are aware of their existence i.e.
reflects the recent trends of humanism they are conscious of themselves and
in psychology. their surroundings . They are aware of
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past experiences and relate them to
Humanist psychology referred as inform present and future behaviour.
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humanism emerged during 1950s which
stress on distinctive human aspects of Humans have free will and make
personality as the existence of his free conscious choices
• Roger’s focus was to ensure that, the • Carl Roger’s humanistic approach of
development processes that led to client-centered therapy is of special
healthier personality functioning. importance as its philosophy marked a
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coined by Roger and was a concept
which led Abraham Maslow to study It offers valuable aspects that can easily
‘self actualization’ as one of the needs be integrated into the homeopathic
of humans. practice.
• He agreed with the main assumptions of perceptions and beliefs about oneself –
the perceptions that the individual has
Maslow, but added that for a person to of the “I” or the “me”
grow, they need an environment that ----The self-concept includes three
provides them with genuineness, components:
acceptance and empathy.
• Self worth or self-esteem – how we
• Without these, relationships , healthy value ourselves
personalities will not develop as they
should.
• Self-image – how we see ourselves
• Ideal self – the person we would like to
• Each person seeks to grow be
psychologically and to continuously
enhance oneself, which is captured by • The self-actualizing
the term “self-actualization”. • The self-actualizing tendency describes
• Congruence
1. Open to experience: both positive and
negative emotions accepted. Negative
feelings are not denied, but worked With congruence Rogers refers person
through. to achieve self-actualization. Self image
2. Existential living: in touch with different is similar to Ideal Self. (client be able to
experiences as they occur in life, search for his own truth).
• Empathy
trusted. People’s own decisions are the
right ones, and we should trust
ourselves to make the right choices. Emphatic understanding means to let
yourself enter the world of another
4. Creativity: creative thinking and risk- person‘s feelings and meanings and to
taking are features of a person’s life. A see them as he does – stepping into his
person does not play safe all the time. world without evaluating or judging
This involves the ability to adjust and him.
change and seek new experiences.