PSY 505 Lecture 10: 10. Self-Actualization Theory
17 May 2016
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His theory is rooted in humanistic psychology. His formulations on the structure and dynamics of personality derive from his therapeutic approach. His therapy suggests that the ability to change and improve personality is centered within the person. The therapist"s role is to assist or facilitate the change. We are rational beings ruled by a conscious perception of our selves and our experiential world. He recognized that childhood experiences affect the way we perceive our environment, and ourselves, rogers insisted that current feelings and emotions have a greater impact on personality. Personality could only be understood from our own viewpoint. Proposed a single-innate, overriding motivation: the inborn tendency to actualize, to develop our abilities and potentials, from the strictly biological to the most sophisticated psychological aspects of our being. Actualization tendency: the basic human motivation to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self.
