PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Attachment Theory, Paternalism, Play Therapy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Shirley Griffith

Document Summary

Feel at home in the world: isolation and helplessness with evolution and loss of home". Non-productive: independent from parents (particularly mother, actively/creatively relate to the world. Tied to world instead of parents: fixation, unwillingness to move beyond mother, afraid to take the next step. Sense of entity: form concept of self, collectivist societies, not as individuals apart from the group. (more primitive, lean towards more individualistic (+) creative movement towards individual (-) conforming to group. Common sense = consistent with frame of orientation. No goal = not worth much: need final goal or objective, transcend isolated existence. Confers meaning to life. (+) rational goals (-) irrational goals. Psychologically unbearable if cannot fulfill these needs, leads to mental illness. Torn from nature but still part of the natural world. More freedom = more isolated: less freedom anchored to roles. Advantages = security, belonging: more freedom (socially and geographically) More of the experience of the burden.