ch 3-6 - personality

social interest

deep concern for others

three major problems

neighborly, work, se%ual - solved through social interest

final goal consistency

all behaviors even those that appear incompatible

subjective perception

filtering sensory information through their own experiences, memories, moods, and cultural context is what shapes behavior

building material of personality

heredity and environment

creative power

style of life

safegaurding techniques

excuses, aggression, withdrawl to protect feelings of superiorty against public disgrace

masculine protest

men are superior to women boooohooooooo

alderian therapy

birth order, early memories, and dreams help foster social interest

personal unconcsicous

reprssed experiences

collective unconscious

inherited attitudes, behaviors, and dreams

archetypes

contnests of the collective unconscious like persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother, wise old man, hearo and self

archetype

collective unconcsious

persona

mask shown to the world

anima

masc and fem

animus

masc in women

great mother

fertility and destrcution

wise old man

intelligent but deceptive voice of accumulated experience

hero

triumphant win but has tragic flaw

self

growth and completion

jungian therapists

dream analysis and active imagiantion to discover patients unconscious

object relations theory

mother child relationship in the first 4-5 months

internal psychic representations

of early significant objects

introject

infants insert these into their own psychic structure and then project them onto an external object

fail to meet thier needs for safety and satisfaction

lack warmth and affection

basic anxiety

isolation and helplessness

basic conflict

incompatible tendencies to move toward, against, and away from people

neurotic trends

tendency to move toward, agaisnt, or away from people. healthy people use all three, neurotic people only use one to fulfill ten of the neurotic needs

intrapsychic conflicts

idealized self-image and self-hatred. both healthy and neurotic

psychological differneces between meen and women

due to cultural and social expectations not biology

Horneyian psychotherapy

bring growth towards actualization of the real self

Compensate

feel inferior, cooperate, high social interest