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Understanding Personality: The Humanistic/Existential Perspectives

Understanding Personality: The Humanistic/Existential Perspectives. 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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Understanding Personality: The Humanistic/Existential Perspectives

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  1. Understanding Personality:The Humanistic/Existential Perspectives

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Abraham Maslow’s Need Hierarchy

  5. Abraham Maslow (p. 343-344) • peak experiences • criticism?

  6. 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”

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

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

  9. Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy • finding meaning in life • not so much mental illness as existential frustration

  10. Frankl’s Logotherapy (cont.) • the existential vacuum • ultimate goal is SELF-TRANSCENDENCE

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