Pointers To Review in Theories of Personality

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POINTERS TO REVIEW IN THEORIES OF PERSONALITY

PRELIM EXAM
1. Why different theories?
2. Dimensions for a concept of humanity
3. What makes a theory useful
4. FREUD: Psychoanalysis
- Overview of Psychoanalysis
- provinces of the mind
- defense mechanisms
- dynamics of personality
- stages of development
- castration anxiety
- castration complex
- characteristic of a mentally healthy person

5. ADLER: Individual Psychology


- Overview of Individual Psychology
- essence of maladjustment
- Social interest
- Abnormal development- safeguarding tendencies, withdrawal, etc.
- style of life
- masculine protest
- applications of individual psychology
- concept of humanity

6. JUNG: Analytical Psychology


- Overview of Analytical Psychology
- levels of psyche
- Archetypes
- psychological types
- Individuation/self-realization
- Jung’s methods of investigation

7. OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY: KLEIN


- Overview of Object Relation Theory
- psychic life of the infant
- aim of Kleinian therapy

8. HORNEY: Psychoanalytic Social theory


- Overview of Psychoanalytic Social Theory
- basic hostility and basic anxiety
- Neurotic Trends
- concept of humanity

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