PSY343H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exaggeration, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Reinforcement
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The actualizing tendency is a directional process of striving toward realization, fulfillment, autonomy, and self-determination. Shift away from looking at people as pathological/sick/broken in any way to a movement towards health and growth given the right conditions. The individual has an inherent capacity to move away from maladjustment and toward psychological health and growth. Person centered therapy (pct) looks at people being good. Maslow criticized freudian psychology: too preoccupied with the sick side of human nature, too little focus on joy, creativity, and self-fulfillment. Self-actualizing people - self-awareness, freedom, basic honesty and caring, and trust and autonomy. This kicked off in the 1940s with abraham maslow. Abraham maslow was a great thinker in the humanistic movement. Childhood: close and warm relationships, religiously strict, lonely. Introverted and intellectual foundational idea: the client therapist relationship for growth. Continue to have far-reaching effects in psychotherapy. Applied his theory to peacemaking, nominated for a nobel peace prize.
