Personality Theories
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- self realization
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innate tendency to strive for truthfulness, productivity and harmonious relationships w. fellow humans
knowing and accepting real self - moving away from others
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detached type
dreads committment that comes w. relationships
needs:
self-sufficiency
perfection
narrow limits - basic evil
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undermining a need for safety and security
abuse
over-protective
neglect
indifference
unfair punishment
sib. rivalry
favoritism
spoiling
inconsistent behavior
break promises
isolating - elusiveness
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never commit self to a decision
highly indecisive
w/o committment = never wrong - compartmentalization
- divide ones life into various components w. different rules applying to the different components
- blind spots
- refuse to acknowledge any experiences that contradict ideal self
- moving against others
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hostile type
feel if they acquire enough power, success, etc. no one can hurt them
needs:
power
exploit others
social recognition & prestige
personal admiration
ambition/achievement - moving towards others
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compliant type
gives-in
needs:
affection & approval (morbid dependancy)
partner to run life
live w/in narrow limits - basic anxiety
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feeling alone & helpless
psychological state that exists when basic hostility is repressed
everyone/everything is potentially dangerous & one is helpless - What is the underlying motivation for all anxieties, hostility & use of lies and unconscious devices?
- basic evil
- basis for neurotic behavior
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basic evil
basic hostility
basic anxiety - basic hostility
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natural responses to basic evil
feeling developed b/c safety and security needs not met
repressed anger/hostility b/c still dep. on parent - tyranny of the should
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idealized self is substitued 4 real self & behavior is governed by unrealistic shoulds
how we "should" feel, think, act - lies and unconscious devies and their main goal
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goal: avoid contradicting ideal self
1. externalization
2. blind spots
3. compartmentalization
4. rationalization
5. excessive self-control
6. arbitray rightness
7. elusivness
8. cynicism - excessive self-control
- no displaying of emotions so as not to contradict ones self
- idealized self
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fictitious view of oneself, with its list of shoulds
who we may become or could be - cynicism
- when a person believes in nothing and therefore is immune to dissapointment that comes from being commited to something shown to be false
- externalization
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seeing other ppl & situations as cause of problems; external to oneself
neurotic tends to try and change others - satisfaction
- meeting psychological needs as those for water, food, and sleep required for a childs biological survival
- safety
- need for security and freedom from fear that Horney believed must be satisfied before normal development can occur
- arbitrary rightness
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impulsively making a decision w/o any thought
usu. in situations where there is no clear solution
"check out" of emotional drama