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    who believed that things hidden in the unconscious could be revealed in a number of different ways‚ including through dreams‚ free association and slips of the tongue. Neo-Freudian theorists‚ including Erik Erikson‚ Carl Jung‚ Alfred Adler and Karen Horney‚ believed in the importance of the unconscious‚ but disagreed with other aspects of Freud’s theories. The Humanistic Perspective The humanistic perspective of personality focuses on psychological growth‚ free will and personal awareness

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    "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway In his summary of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemingway‚ Paul Rankin comes to a few conclusions about the a young girl in the story. Using both Carl Jung and Karen Horney’s application of human behavior to buttress his opinion‚ Rankin comes to the conclusion that Jig was the superior actor and the unnamed American is the inferior actor in the play. The evidence Rankin uses to prove Jung’s theory is that the nature of the mans feelings

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    Major Contributors to Psychology Karen Horney: Horney developed a theory of neurosis (class of functional mental disorders) that is still used today. She identified 10 different neuroses. Horney rejected Freud’s theory of the female psychology as well. She thought men felt somewhat inferior due to “womb envy”. She mad the psychology of women more interesting. She also felt people could act as their own therapist. B.F. Skinner: B.F. Skinner’s system was based on operant conditioning. He

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    Similar to object relations‚ Horney focused on the interpersonal nature of our early relationships as being responsible for our adult drives and neuroses‚ as opposed to being the result of instinctual drives for the satisfaction and gratification of sexual and aggressive needs. She

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    family and society. Freud established this prototype of personality structure in which similarities are recognisable in the subsequent adaptations‚ interpretations and extensions to personality development theory offered by Alfred Adler‚ Carl Jung ‚ Karen Horney and Juliet Mitchell. Freud identified the driving forces behind our every urge and compulsion to be sexuality and aggression or

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    View Of Human Nature Humans are born basically good. It is Karen Horney’s view that “people are essentially good” but in my personal opinion‚ I think that humans are in the borderline of it. Tendencies of them being good or evil or just depends. But if you were to ask me and am only allowed to choose between the two‚ I think I’ll be siding on that people are basically evil meaning here that I will be contradicting on Karen Horney statement. I’ll be talking about why I think humans are basically

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    References: Fonseca‚ N. (2006). FANTASIA VOYAGE. Entertainment Weekly‚ (911)‚ 54-57. Horney‚ K. (1937). The neurotic personality of our time. New York: Norton. http://www.answers.com/topic/fantasia-barrino Schultz‚ P.‚ & Duane‚ and Sydney‚ E. (2009). Theories of Personality (ninth edition). Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

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    Other scholars also made contributions to the psychoanalytic approach to personality theory; these people were called the Neo Freudians. These different perspectives were created by scholars such as; Alfred Adler‚ Carl Jung‚ Erik Erikson‚ and Karen Horney. Neo-Freudians agreed that childhood experiences influenced adult personality and the unconscious being a main cause of behavior. However‚ they did not agree that the adult personality was fully developed through experiences of a child at age 5

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    Psychoanalytic Society‚ Adler eventually departed from Freud’s theories and developed his own perspective‚ which he called Individual Psychology. He had a strong influence on a number of other eminent psychologists‚ including Carl Rogers‚ Abraham Maslow and Karen Horney. Mary Ainsworth Mary Ainsworth was a psychologist best known for her research on attachment theory and the development of the "strange situation" assessment. Her work played an important role in our understanding of child development and has

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    Theories of Personality Quiz Assignment 2c Part I: Defense Mechanisms (4 points each) Read the following descriptions of behavior and match them with the appropriate defense mechanism. Use each choice only once. A. Regression E. Sublimation B. Projection F. Repression C. Denial G. Rationalization D. Displacement H. Reaction formation 1. __G____ When Bob is turned down for the job of his dreams‚ he decides that it was not really such a good thing and that he is actually glad

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