PSYC-2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: As Good As It Gets, Psychopathy, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
12 Feb 2019
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Traits that create problems in adapting to life. Borderline pd, volatility, low sense of self/weak sense of self. As good as it gets - ocdpd - rigid in exible interpersonal style. The unexamined life is not worth living . The assumption of accurate self-knowledge producing pro-social outcomes. Carl rogers - closely related to this openness to inner and outer experience in general is an openness to and an acceptance of other individuals. As a client moves towards being able to accept his own experience, he also moves towards the acceptance of the experiences of others. Thinking about yourself in a psychological way activates the same things as processing the psychological processes of other people. We use the same neural networks in processing that information. We see correlation/association with conservatives and happiness. One is the way in which conservative values and religious belief promotes social integration and social capital.
