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In Partial fulfilment of
The requirements for the subject of
Advanced Theories of Personality
Prepared by:
Remelyn T Gialogo
Master of Arts in Psychology – Major in Clinical Psychology
GRPY206 / S.Y. 2018-2019 / Special Term
Submitted to:
Dr. Patria E. Sembrana RPm, RPsy
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A. PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
B. NEO-PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
C. LIFE-SPAN APPROACH
D. GENETICS APPROACH
E. HUMANISTIC APPROACH (FROMM: HUMANISTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS)
F. COGNITIVE APPROACH
G. BEHAVIORAL APPROACH
H. SOCIAL LEARNING APPROACH
I. OTHER APPROACH
A. PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
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a. Biography
Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist and psychoanalyst, who was
associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. He was known for
developing the concept that freedom was a fundamental part of human nature,
and for challenging the theories of Sigmund Freud. Fromm was an only child
born to Orthodox Jewish parents in Frankfurt on March 23, 1900. He would later
describe his childhood as "highly neurotic." At the age of 14, Fromm was heavily
influenced by the start of World War I and developed a strong interest in the
behavior of groups. He began looking for answers to his questions in the writings
of thinkers including Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx. He went on to study
sociology at the University of Heidelberg, earning his doctorate in 1922 under
the supervision of Alfred Weber. In 1924, he began studying psychoanalis at the
University of Frankfurt before moving to the Berlin Institute of Psychoanalysis. In
1926, he married Freida Reichmann, a woman ten years his senior who had once
been Fromm's own psychoanalyst. The marriage dissolved after four years. He is
also a lover of Karen Horney and eventually with Annis Freeman. Fromm moved
from Mexico City to Muralto, Switzerland in 1974, where he lived until his death
in 1980. https://www.verywellmind.com/erich-fromm-1900-1980-2795506
(Feist et.Al.,
2013)
a. Terms
Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis assumes that humanity’s separation from
the natural world has produced feelings of loneliness and isolation, a
condition called basic anxiety. Fromm was very interested in historical and
cultural perspectives on human nature, not just psychological perspectives.The
changes in the human condition lead to feelings of anxiety, isolation, and
powerlessness. The cost is freedom and this cost far exceeds the benefits.
Humans have two alternatives: (1)to escape from freedom into interpersonal
dependencies, (2)to move to self-realization through productive love and work.
https://docplayer.net/3473992-Fromm-humanistic-psychoanalysis.html (Feist
et.Al., 2013)
b. Basic Assumptions
Fromm’s most basic assumption is that individual personality can be understood
only in the light of human history. First, the discussion of the human situation
must precede that of personality, and psychology must be based on
anthropologic-philosophical concept of human existence. Second, Fromm
believed that humans, unlike other animals, have been “torn away” from their
prehistoric union with nature. Lastly, Humans forces to attempt solve the basic
insoluble dichotomies “Existential Dichotomies”. Humans face fundamental
dichotomies; life and death, humans are capable of
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c. Basic Concepts
Human Needs
Only distinctive human needs can move people toward a reunion with the
natural world.These existential needs have emerged during the evolution of
human culture, growing out of their attempts to find an answer to their
existence and to avoid becoming insane.Health individuals are better able to find
ways to reunite with the world productively solving the human needs of
5.Respect
6.Knowledge
Transcendence is the urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and
into the “realm of purposefulness and freedom”.
Rootedness is the need to establish roots or to feel at home in the world again.
Without Rootedness, the feelings of isolation and helplessness can become
unbearable. Can be productive or unproductive as in separation from the
mother or not fixation.
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need a road map to make their way through the world.
We need to put things into a framework. A road map without a goal or destination
is worthless.
Mechanisms of escape
it can happen by dominated in the unity with another person called sadism
by controlling and exploiting others.
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Character orientations
The person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things
“The totality of inherited and acquired psychic qualities which are characteristic
of one individual and which make the individual unique.” People relate to the
world in two ways; acquiring and using things (assimilation), relating to self and
others (socialization). These thing happen productively or nonproductively.
Nonproductive Orientations
People can acquire things through any one of four nonproductive
orientations: (1) receiving things passively, (2) exploiting, or taking things
through force, (3) hoarding
objects, and (4) marketing or exchanging things. Fromm used the term
“nonproductive” to suggest strategies that fail to move people closer to positive
freedom and self-realization. Nonproductive orientations are, however, not
entirely negative; each has both a negative and a positive aspect. Personality is
always a blend or combination of several orientations, even though one
orientation is dominant.
Receptive
Receptive characters feel that the source of all good lies outside themselves and
that the only way they can relate to the world is to receive things, including love,
knowledge, and material possessions. They are more concerned with receiving
than with giving, and they want others to shower them with love, ideas, and
gifts.The negative qualities of receptive people include passivity, submissiveness,
and lack of self-confidence. Their positive traits are loyalty, acceptance, and
trust.
Exploitative
Exploitative characters believe that the source of all good is outside themselves.
Unlike receptive people, however, they aggressively take what they desire rather
than passively receive it. In their social relationships, they are likely to use
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cunning or force to take someone else’s spouse, ideas, or property. On the
negative side, exploitative characters are egocentric, conceited, arrogant, and
seducing. On the positive side, they are impulsive, proud, charming, and self-
confident.
Hoarding
Hoarding characters seek to save that which they have already obtained. They
hold everything inside and do not let go of anything. Negative traits of the
hoarding personality include rigidity, sterility, obstinacy, compulsivity, and lack
of creativity; positive characteristics are orderliness, cleanliness, and punctuality.
Marketing
Marketing character is an outgrowth of modern commerce in which trade is no
longer personal but carried out by large, faceless corporations. Consistent with
the demands of modern commerce, marketing characters see themselves as
commodities, with their personal value dependent on their exchange value, that
is, their ability to sell themselves. Negative traits of marketing characters are
aimless, opportunistic, inconsistent, and wasteful. Some of their positive
qualities include changeability, open-mindedness, adaptability, and generosity.
Personality Disorders
Fromm (1981) held that psychologically disturbed people are incapable of love
and have failed to establish union with others. He discussed three severe
personality disorders— necrophilia, malignant narcissism, and incestuous
symbiosis.
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Malignant Narcissism
Just as all people display some necrophilic behavior, so too do all have some
narcissistic tendencies. Healthy people manifest a benign form of narcissism,
that is, an interest in their own body. However, in its malignant form, narcissism
impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic
person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued.
Narcissistic individuals are preoccupied with themselves, but this concern is not
limited to admiring themselves in a mirror. Preoccupation with one’s body often
leads to hypochondriasis, or an obsessive attention to one’s health. Fromm
(1964) also discussed moral hypochondriasis, or a preoccupation with guilt
about previous transgressions. People who are fixated on themselves are likely
to internalize experiences and to dwell on both physical health and moral
virtues.Incestuous
Symbiosis
A third pathological orientation is incestuous symbiosis, or an extreme
dependence on the mother or mother surrogate. Incestuous symbiosis is an
exaggerated form of the more
common and more benign mother fixation. Men with a mother fixation need a
woman to care for them, dote on them, and admire them; they feel somewhat
anxious and depressed when their needs are not fulfilled. This condition is
relatively normal and does not greatly interfere with their daily life.With
incestuous symbiosis, however, people are inseparable from the host person;
their personalities are blended with the other person and their individual
identities are lost. Incestuous symbiosis originates in infancy as a natural
attachment to the mothering one.
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Psychotherapy
He then evolved his own system of therapy, which he called humanistic
psychoanalysis. Compared with Freud, Fromm was much more concerned with
the interpersonal aspects of a therapeutic encounter. He believed that the aim
of therapy is for patients to come to know themselves. Without knowledge of
ourselves, we cannot know any other person or thing. Fromm believed that
patients come to therapy seeking satisfaction of their basic human needs—
relatedness, transcendence, rootedness, a sense of identity, and a frame of
orientation. Therefore, therapy should be built on a personal relationship
between therapist and patient. Because accurate communication is essential to
therapeutic growth, the therapist must relate “as one human being to another
with utter concentration and utter sincerity”
https://sites.google.com/site/ubmichellebadillo/theories-of-personality/fromm-
humanistic-psychoanalysis-theory
Reference:
Feist, J., Feist, G. J., & Roberts, T. (2013). Theories of Personality. Mc Graw Hill, 8th Ed.,
119-216. Even if this reference is correct/valid, why did your work can be seen on the
provided link word by word? Too lazy to make a paper, rem?
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Title: Cultural Estrangement: The Role of Personal and Societal Value Discrepancies
Article (PDF Available) in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 32(1):
78-92 · February 2006
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205279908
litical (e.g., censorship) or mundane (e.g., pizza) objects. The relations between
different types of value discrepancies, estrangement, subjective well-being, and
need for uniqueness also were examined. Results indicated that personal-
societal discrepancies in values and political attitudes predicted estrangement,
whereas mundane attitude discrepancies were not related to estrangement. As
expected, value discrepancies were the most powerful predictor of
estrangement. Value discrepancies were not related to subjective well-being but
fulfilled a need for uniqueness. Study 2 replicated the relations between value
discrepancies, subjective well-being, and need for uniqueness while showing
that a self-report measure of participants' values and a peer-report measure of
the participants' values yielded the same pattern of value discrepancies.
Together, the studies reveal theoretical and empirical benefits of conceptualizing
cultural estrangement in terms of value discrepancies.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16317190/
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Title: A grounded theory analysis of sexual sadism in females
Accepted 10 Jun 2011, Published online: 18 Jul 2011
https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2011.597058
Abstract: Although there has been a great deal of research conducted on sex
offenders, a majority of studies have focused on male perpetrators. The general
consensus is that very little is known about female sexual perpetrators due
primarily to the
small number of identified offenders and sociocultural factors. These issues are
even more prominent for subtypes of female perpetrators such as those whose
offences involve sexual sadism. The following paper examined five incarcerated
female offenders, diagnosed with sexual sadism. Grounded theory analysis was
used to identify psychological characteristics and behavioural patterns related
to the sadistic behaviours that are not currently included in diagnostic criteria.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13552600.2011.597058?needA
ccess=true word by word still? Don’t you know how to paraphrase? Did you not
go to college? Or maybe you did not do any research papers or even thesis while
in college? Ganda lang puhunan ?
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I. Research Objectives
The participants is compose of 30 male and female IBM employees. The participants
must be 1 year and beyond employed in the IBM and must be in leading position.
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IV. Research Instruments
V. Research Findings
In general, participants with high scores on authoritarianism were more fearful
than participants with low scores. This result was found for both social
threats and personal threats. The strongest association between authoritarianism and fear
involved cases of social differences, defined as elements of a person's appearance or behavior
that involve diversity or deviance from common social norms. Regression analyses also
indicated that variation in authoritarianism could be best predicted by fear of social differences.
Thus, these data suggest that authoritarians are relatively sensitive to threat, and particularly to
threats involving the "outsider" who does not fit authoritarian standards of uniformity and
order. The data are also consistent with recent research and theory that right-wing ideology is
at least partly motivated by threat and fear. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23390969/
Lol for prepared. More like COPIED FROM THE INTERNET WORD BY WORD BY:
REMELYN GIALOGO 😂
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