PSY 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ludwig Binswanger, Mortality Salience, Rollo May
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Of all psychodynamic theorists, freud"s had the most . On views about the effects of early childhood. On culture (e. g. , the notion it"s bad to inhibit impulses) The theory is very hard to test. Concepts defined ambiguously, hard to represent/measure in the scientific study. Freud"s attraction to metaphor gives theory almost literary qualities. Heavy reliance on about a dozen case studies. Such studies less reliable, no longer dominant research method. Using a biased, preselected set of cases. Inferring a thing then treating it as if it were a fact. Growth motivation (or sometimes the fear of it) Mortality salience, or the fear you"re gonna die". The strongest motive force is the tendency to express to an ever greater degree one"s capabilities or potentials. Immediate and conscious experience at the moment is the most important thing. Positive aspects of selfhood develop as the individual confronts, moves through, and overcomes anxiety- creating experiences including awareness of one"s mortality - rollo may (1950)
