PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pollination Syndrome, Personality Psychology, Soltyrei
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To truly understand a person you need to more than understand the traits that make up a person. The adaptations help to fill in the details, but they don"t give us a complete portrait of a life. Beyond traits and characteristic adaptations, we need to understand how people define themselves in the context of an emerging and evolving life story. Identity is narrated it takes story form (at a fundamental level when searching for an identity you are searching for a coherent life story) Life stories have a potential healing function life story revision is used as psychotherapy. Infancy - narrative tone: the infant life sets the tone for the story. Childhood- imagery and theme: provides the themee and images we will use later on. Adolescence setting and character: provides not only the setting but the character there will play the protagonist once the stage is set.
