PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Collectivism, Carl Jung

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 505
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

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We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that i know. Carl rogers (1902-1987: carl rogers (1902-1987, american. Freud: controlled by unconscious forces, personality is determined, and fixed, by experiences in early life (deterministic, our adult experiences are simply repeats of unresolved early conflicts. Rogers: emphasises conscious perceptions of the present, subjectivity of experience, humanistic. Lecture 5 notes: the reality each of us observes is unique, it is a private world of experience the phenomenal field . Feelings of authenticity: people are prone to a distinctive form of psychological stress called incongruence , it is the feeling that one"s experiences does not align with one"s true self. So, we call our friend and make up and we immediately feel a lot better (congruence) It remains relatively stable across time and situations.