Psy 250 Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment
Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment
Tiffany Sky Mendoza
PSY/250
November 11, 2014
Karen Wilson
Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalytic theory of personality. He was under fire due to his theories. He was criticized for his unique obsession with sexuality. That is why his Neo-Freudians tried to restate Freudians theories to sociological and cultural rather than only sexuality. Since he refused Jung and Adler left and stated their own schools. Freud continued with his studies the way he wanted.
When comparing Freud, Jung and Adler and their beliefs. Unfortunately the main theory they all somewhat believed that dreams are important. Freud and Jung did believe that dreams …show more content…
The reason they for this discussion is that Freud 's strong belief that dreams and a individuals personality are based on sexual emphasis and that developed a very influential theories of personality. So Adler and Jung both opened their on schools.
Jung 's school is called Analytical Psychology.The "Psycho 200" (2014) website "He interprets feelings and behavior in terms of both an individual and racial unconscious." The we have Adler that also left Freud 's school to start his own called Individual Psychology. His school "Psycho 200" (2014) website " Interprets behavior in terms of a desire for pouter in the social order."
I agree with Freud 's Defense Mechanism called Repression. People that are faced with trauma and some individuals can overcome what happened and continue on with their life and others may not be so lucky. Some individuals receive therapy to help them deal with that trauma and others do not receive any help and turn to other resources to block what …show more content…
An example of displacement is: My mom got angry and shouts at me. I go home and shout at my son, then he shouts at his little brother and his little brother goes and hits the dog.
According to Goldberg (2000) “Self- deception is conventionally viewed by people to protect themselves from threatening revelation by ignoring information ” (p. 5). Freud in 1923 tried to resolve this problem by dividing the mind into three. One unconscious and censors of unacceptable thoughts and feelings, conscious part that is aware of censor material and last but not least a realm that unconscious accessible to consciousness.
Psychoanalytic theories, such as those developed by Freud, Jung and Adler serve a critical purpose of explaining the development of personalities from different perspectives. Using this theories provide insight and understanding into personality. To get into Freud 's head in regards to personality development, understanding the stages of his theory is necessary. Repression, denial, projection and displacement are all instances of defense mechanisms the individuals use in real life as a means to distort reality as to protect your
Tiffany Sky Mendoza
PSY/250
November 11, 2014
Karen Wilson
Psychoanalytic Personality Assessment Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalytic theory of personality. He was under fire due to his theories. He was criticized for his unique obsession with sexuality. That is why his Neo-Freudians tried to restate Freudians theories to sociological and cultural rather than only sexuality. Since he refused Jung and Adler left and stated their own schools. Freud continued with his studies the way he wanted.
When comparing Freud, Jung and Adler and their beliefs. Unfortunately the main theory they all somewhat believed that dreams are important. Freud and Jung did believe that dreams …show more content…
The reason they for this discussion is that Freud 's strong belief that dreams and a individuals personality are based on sexual emphasis and that developed a very influential theories of personality. So Adler and Jung both opened their on schools.
Jung 's school is called Analytical Psychology.The "Psycho 200" (2014) website "He interprets feelings and behavior in terms of both an individual and racial unconscious." The we have Adler that also left Freud 's school to start his own called Individual Psychology. His school "Psycho 200" (2014) website " Interprets behavior in terms of a desire for pouter in the social order."
I agree with Freud 's Defense Mechanism called Repression. People that are faced with trauma and some individuals can overcome what happened and continue on with their life and others may not be so lucky. Some individuals receive therapy to help them deal with that trauma and others do not receive any help and turn to other resources to block what …show more content…
An example of displacement is: My mom got angry and shouts at me. I go home and shout at my son, then he shouts at his little brother and his little brother goes and hits the dog.
According to Goldberg (2000) “Self- deception is conventionally viewed by people to protect themselves from threatening revelation by ignoring information ” (p. 5). Freud in 1923 tried to resolve this problem by dividing the mind into three. One unconscious and censors of unacceptable thoughts and feelings, conscious part that is aware of censor material and last but not least a realm that unconscious accessible to consciousness.
Psychoanalytic theories, such as those developed by Freud, Jung and Adler serve a critical purpose of explaining the development of personalities from different perspectives. Using this theories provide insight and understanding into personality. To get into Freud 's head in regards to personality development, understanding the stages of his theory is necessary. Repression, denial, projection and displacement are all instances of defense mechanisms the individuals use in real life as a means to distort reality as to protect your