PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Psychodynamics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: victor emerson

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The textbook defines (p. 571) personality as an individual"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. More likely, you want someone who is reliable and dependable that is, someone whose behaviour and attitudes are predictable. Psychodynamic theories: freud, jung, horney, and adler, plus neo-freudians and psychodynamic theorists. Humanistic theories: abraham maslow, carl rogers, and the person . Social-cognitive theories: evaluation of behaviour in a social context. Just as copernicus, newton and, later, einstein revolutionised our way of viewing the. Universe, so did freud revolutionise our way of seeing the human being. Freud, a viennese psychoanalyst (1856-1939), started as a physician who decided to specialise in nervous disorders . Freud soon realised that many of the nervous disorders his patients exhibited had no organic cause, so freud embarked on a quest to understand the human animal. Freud was a determinist who believed that nothing ever happened by accident.