Psychology 2550A/B Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Text Notes.docx

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Work at this level began as a protest movement by psychologist who cared about personality, particularly by clinical psychologists working with disturbed and distressed people after wwii. This was against psychoanalytic work of freud and his followers that dominated clinical psychology and psychiatry at the time. Critique: freudian approach was too focused on pathology and disordered aspects of personality, and too inattentive to its potential strengths. Increasing doubts about therapeutic efficacy and practical usefulness of psychoanalysis, and scientific validity: also against behaviourism and rat psychology", which dominated most academic psychology departments in us. George kelly what is most important about personality is what has been left out how the person views or contrues" the world in different ways. These contrues guide the way people think, feel, do, and become. People are free to change the way they construe and appraise themselves and the world.

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