Compare and contrast the Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches to understanding personality.
Compare and contrast the Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches to understanding personality.
People engage in topics of personality on a daily basis. It is how we engage with others, behave towards them and how we assert judgement. Personality theorists attempt to explain these connections through theory, observation and testing. Particular influential theories of personality are psychodynamic and humanistic theory. I will seek to analyse the prime divergences that separate these approaches from one another, not ignoring that although they may offer varied methods for psychological treatment, both can be seen as efficient in their processes. Issues discussed will include basic premises of personality, methodology and behaviour explanation whist exploring comprehension, validity and scientific nature, with an evaluation based on beneficial and limited natures of these theories.
The humanistic approach explores the processes and nature of the person as the nucleus of personality. It centres on an individuals subjective experiences of his/her world (Pervin, L.A, & Cervone, D. 2010) , and encourages the view that we are born without constriction, therefore having freewill. A persons behaviour is therefore not related to unconscious cognitive processes, but by conscious thoughts and feelings, our concept of self, Humanistic psychologists argue we have an innate goodness, which overtime is corrupted through experiences within our environment and society constitutions of the 'norm'.
Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was the primary theorist of this approach. His notion focused on the conscious integrated patterns of perception that individuals have of themselves, the 'self'', and that we are driven by human instincts to reach our full potentiality,or self actualization. This however requires reinforcement, the need for positive regard, as we judge our achievements on the opinion of others, wanting to feel acknowledgement on a unconditional basis. Rogers claimed for this to
People engage in topics of personality on a daily basis. It is how we engage with others, behave towards them and how we assert judgement. Personality theorists attempt to explain these connections through theory, observation and testing. Particular influential theories of personality are psychodynamic and humanistic theory. I will seek to analyse the prime divergences that separate these approaches from one another, not ignoring that although they may offer varied methods for psychological treatment, both can be seen as efficient in their processes. Issues discussed will include basic premises of personality, methodology and behaviour explanation whist exploring comprehension, validity and scientific nature, with an evaluation based on beneficial and limited natures of these theories.
The humanistic approach explores the processes and nature of the person as the nucleus of personality. It centres on an individuals subjective experiences of his/her world (Pervin, L.A, & Cervone, D. 2010) , and encourages the view that we are born without constriction, therefore having freewill. A persons behaviour is therefore not related to unconscious cognitive processes, but by conscious thoughts and feelings, our concept of self, Humanistic psychologists argue we have an innate goodness, which overtime is corrupted through experiences within our environment and society constitutions of the 'norm'.
Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was the primary theorist of this approach. His notion focused on the conscious integrated patterns of perception that individuals have of themselves, the 'self'', and that we are driven by human instincts to reach our full potentiality,or self actualization. This however requires reinforcement, the need for positive regard, as we judge our achievements on the opinion of others, wanting to feel acknowledgement on a unconditional basis. Rogers claimed for this to