PSYC 353 Lecture Notes - Carl Jung, Midlife Crisis, Middle Age
13 Mar 2014
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Personality and how it may be affected by outside influences that you come across as you age. Things that are personal that concern you the things that make you as unique as you are: events, such as losing a family member. Jung"s theory (carl jung freudian psychoanalytic approach, but also a humanist) First theorist to discuss personality development during adulthood: he invented the notion of a midlife crisis". Jung argues that people move toward integrating these dimensions as they age, with midlife being an especially important period. Erikson was the first theorist to develop a truly lifespan theory of personality development. His 8 stages in a complete chart are in your textbook. Steps: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. Isolation: generativity vs. stagnation all middle-aged people want to feel useful or needed, integrity vs. Logan argues that the eight stages are really a cycle that repeats: trust achievement wholeness.
