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The Significance of Studying The Early Developments of Personality Psychology in Its Current Role in The Field
The Significance of Studying The Early Developments of Personality Psychology in Its Current Role in The Field
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understand human developmental concepts which will explain the changes in behavior of
individuals through different points of view and also by looking at how all the various parts of
each person work together as a whole. Studying the early developments of personality
psychology paved the way for understanding why a certain person behaves the way they do and
allowed the others to know how to react or respond to these behaviors. Through researches and
practice many different approaches have been developed to reduce personal distress. For
example, a friend of yours is having a mental breakdown and you suggest that she goes to a
psychotherapist, now with out studying the early developments of personality psychology the
therapist would just be relying on personal experience or intuition but when they do study these
theories the therapist will have a clear idea of how they can help or diagnose the patient.
Studying the early developments of personality psychology also provided us with the
discovery of different techniques for therapy and medicine which helps treat the mind. Different
psychologists have offered several theories of personality that have helped us obtain a
deeper and fuller knowledge of what makes each person different from other people, having
knowledge about these theories will help us help others in the future.
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