PSY BEH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Neuroticism
12 Mar 2017
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A response to freud"s theory on therapy patients" personality. Other psychologists said freud"s view was too negative (talking about the human"s sexual desires, etc) Maslow called freud"s theory cripple psychology b/c his theory referred to the bad side of personality and only incorporated a small handful of crippled, or those who had the biggest psychology problems. Maslow wanted to come up with the theory that talked about a healthy personality. Humans work towards satisfying a series of needs. After satisfying these needs, we reach the ultimate goal of self- actualization = fulfilling our potential. To make the most of our life. In order to research on this theory, he did case studies on people who seemed to have lived a worthy life ex) lincoln, jefferson, eleanor roosevelt. Basically a positive approach in characterizing personality compared to. People are good and try to self-actualize. The people around us are very important in helping us grow and self- actualize.
