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Title: Understanding Personality: The Humanistic/Existential Perspectives


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Understanding PersonalityThe Humanistic/Existent
ial Perspectives
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What is personality?
  • unique way a person thinks, acts and feels
    throughout life
  • is stable over time
  • many perspectives in personality, we will focus
    on humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives

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A Phenomenological approach
  • Behavior is determined by the phenomenological
    reality of a person
  • Must know what the world is like for that person,
    no two people are the same

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Abraham Maslows Need Hierarchy
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Abraham Maslow (p. 343-344)
  • peak experiences
  • criticism?

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Carl Rogers Person-Centered Approach
  • we all need love and approval
  • we all have a desire to develop our unique
    potential- a self-actualizing tendency

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Carl Rogers Person-Centered Approach
  • self- concept the real and ideal selves
  • Unconditional Positive Regard
  • empathy, genuineness
  • mirroring

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Existential Approaches
  • free will and choice, leading to responsibility
  • the search for meaning

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Viktor Frankls Logotherapy
  • finding meaning in life
  • not so much mental illness as existential
    frustration

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Frankls Logotherapy (cont.)
  • the existential vacuum
  • ultimate goal is SELF-TRANSCENDENCE
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