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The Humanistic Perspective Of Personality. Unit 5. Humanistic Psychology. In the 1960’s people became sick of Freud’s negativity. Along came psychologists who wanted to focus on “healthy” people and how to help them strive to “be all that they can be”.
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Humanistic Psychology • In the 1960’s people became sick of Freud’s negativity. • Along came psychologists who wanted to focus on “healthy” people and how to help them strive to “be all that they can be”.
Abraham Maslow’s Self Actualizing Person • Created the Hierarchy of Needs • Ultimately seek self- actualization • the process of fulfilling our potential • Maslow developed his ideas by studying what he termed “healthy people”.
Self-Actualized People • They are self aware and self accepting -They share certain characteristics: • Open and spontaneous • Loving and caring • Not paralyzed by others’ opinions. • They are secure in who they are.
Self-Actualized People Problem centered rather than self-centered. Focused their energy on a particular task. Few deep relationships, rather than many superficial ones.
Self-Actualization • These are the qualities that make up a mature adult. • These people have found their calling in life.
Table Talk • What are the key characteristics of a self-actualized person? • Name a few other celebrities that you believe have reached self-actualization. • Why them?
Carl Rogers’s Person-Centered Perspective • People are basically GOOD. • We are like Acorns -Need Water, Sun and Nutrients to Grow into a big Oak Tree. We need genuineness, acceptance and empathy for us to mature.
Genuineness • Being open with your own feelings. • Dropping your facade. • Being transparent and self-disclosing.
Acceptance • Unconditional Positive Regard: - An attitude of acceptance regardless of circumstances. - Accepting yourself or others completely.
Empathy • Listening, sharing, understanding and mirroring feelings and reflecting their meanings.
Self-Concept • All of thoughts and feelings about ourselves trying to answer the question…. …WHO AM I?
Self-Concept • Both Rogers and Maslow believed that your self-concept is at the center of your personality. • If our self concept is positive…. - We tend to act and perceive the world positively. • If our self-concept is negative…. - We fall short of our “ideal self” and feel dissatisfied and unhappy
Activity • For each of the following slides pick one of the options and say / write down WHY you choose that option. • Example: If slide has a picture of a beach & a mountain vista which one would you rather go to and why.
Which do you prefer? Mountain vista Beach
Do labels really matter? Yes NO
WHO ARE YOU to others? Real Self Your Ideal Self
HOWS YOUR Self-Esteem? LOW HIGH
Do you like you….really? Genuine No\ Fake
