Humanistic and existential personality theories
Sherry D Lewis Monica Young Quintina Jackson
PSY/405
March 11, 2012
Dr. Amanze Ihedioha
Humanistic and existential personality theories
This paper is about human and existential personality theories. In this paper team C will analyze the strengths and limitations of the theories listed in explaining individual’s behavior. Through this paper team C will analyze how humanistic and existential theories affect individual personalities and team c will also explain how humanistic and existential theories influence theories influence interpersonal relationships.
Existentialism emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and dresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s own actions (Farlex, 2013). Humanistic and existential theories deal with human nature and matters that concern human motivation and human behavior.
The strengths of humanistic and existential theories are that on a broad scale they relate to all human beings. All human beings have humanistic habits and tendencies. Existentialism relates to all human beings in that all human beings have conscious thought, free will, and accountability for their own actions. Some glaring limitations with humanistic and existential theories are that, despite the fact that both theories relate to all human beings on a general level, when you look at each individual person there are differences that separate us one from another.
Humanistic and existential theories affect interpersonal relationships by allowing individuals to realize that we are all human beings and as such we all have a lot in common, such as our need to love and be loved. Humanistic and existential theories also allow individuals to recognize that although we are all human
References: Farlex, Inc. (2013). The free dictionary by farlex. Retrieved from http://www.thefreedictionary.com Feist, J. & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality (7th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.