PSYCH 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Human Behavior, Personality Psychology, Thematic Apperception Test
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The history of the organism is the organism . He read psychological types by carl jung, met jung and was fascinated by his work (and other things) He strongly valued the unconscious and was especially interested in how unconscious motives influenced people"s lives and behavior. He worked for (what would become) the cia doing first criminal profile of. He was appointed as the director of the harvard psychological clinic. One of the people he studied turned out to be the unibomer. To understand personality we need to understand the whole person. In 1938 along with 27 co-authors he published explorations in personality, a seminal work in personality psychology, that summarized the study of 51 college men from harvard university. They had an affair that lasted some 4 decades. The billy bob and angelina of their day. Human behavior is driven by unconscious needs that render out lives coherent. We have no conscious access to these motives.
