Humanistic Personality: Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, And Rollo May
The Humanistic Personality
The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth, that we as humans have the ability to choose what they do regardless of environment, and that humans are pretty much conscious beings and that we are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. Three of the humanistic psychologists that I have outlined are Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Rollo May. I am going to outline their theories on humanistic personality and the reason why I agree with them and how it fits my own personal personality. Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May differ in their emphases but they all agree …show more content…
For example your physical way of maintaining and enhancing your life would be to stay alive by eating, keeping warm, and avoiding physical danger, whereas on a psychological level you would seek out new experiences, master new skills and quit boring jobs and find exciting new ones. He used the term "fully functioning person" for people that were self actualizing and these people were people who were very open to their feelings no matter what they were, those people were exactly what he was basing his theories on. Rogers was a firm believer that how and when we self actualize was based on childhood experience, that it is crucial for children to have positive regard or they will not be able to have this growth. He also believed that when you had an anxiety that in order to protect your mind that humans distort reality, that I can firmly believe …show more content…
Describing personalities he used very different words including, destiny, courage, and authenticity. He is the only psychologist listed under humanistic psychologist that discuses the stages of development but not in the strict Freudian sense. The four stages that he mentions are Innocence in which for example is the stage of the infant, Rebellion in which is the childhood and adolescent stage, ordinary which is the adult ego and Creative which is the authentic, self actualized adult. The most important aspect of his theory was to organize oneself in order to have the "courage" and achieve one's
The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth, that we as humans have the ability to choose what they do regardless of environment, and that humans are pretty much conscious beings and that we are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. Three of the humanistic psychologists that I have outlined are Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, and Rollo May. I am going to outline their theories on humanistic personality and the reason why I agree with them and how it fits my own personal personality. Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May differ in their emphases but they all agree …show more content…
For example your physical way of maintaining and enhancing your life would be to stay alive by eating, keeping warm, and avoiding physical danger, whereas on a psychological level you would seek out new experiences, master new skills and quit boring jobs and find exciting new ones. He used the term "fully functioning person" for people that were self actualizing and these people were people who were very open to their feelings no matter what they were, those people were exactly what he was basing his theories on. Rogers was a firm believer that how and when we self actualize was based on childhood experience, that it is crucial for children to have positive regard or they will not be able to have this growth. He also believed that when you had an anxiety that in order to protect your mind that humans distort reality, that I can firmly believe …show more content…
Describing personalities he used very different words including, destiny, courage, and authenticity. He is the only psychologist listed under humanistic psychologist that discuses the stages of development but not in the strict Freudian sense. The four stages that he mentions are Innocence in which for example is the stage of the infant, Rebellion in which is the childhood and adolescent stage, ordinary which is the adult ego and Creative which is the authentic, self actualized adult. The most important aspect of his theory was to organize oneself in order to have the "courage" and achieve one's