PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Personality Disorder

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1001
• Professor: All

Document Summary

14th century - first appearance of the word personality. Between 14th and 20th century, personality was increasinly associated with individuality. 20th century - personality associated with charm and charisma. Personality psychology: psychological differences between people, thought, emotion, behaviour, generally distinct from intellectual abilities, enduring dispositions, generalised/ clustered patterns of responding, encompasses underlying psychological mechanisms. Overview of the major personality theories: psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approaches, unconcious mind. Personality psychology: where does it fit in: focus is on differences between people, focus is on whole persons in their daily environments, level of abstraction, distinct from social psychology. Stability vs malleability: distinct from clinical psychology. Why learn about freud: his ideas dominated psychology for nearly 100 years, many of his ideas are still with us today in altered form, his ideas are often misunderstood in popular culture. Early psychoanalytic theory: source of problem stems from the unconcious, the mind is a place of conflict, emphasis on childhood experiences, emphasis on sexuality.