PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Viktor Frankl, Abraham Maslow, Jolla
27 Oct 2020
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A philosophical movement that describes the formal structure of the objects of awareness and of awareness itself. The study of the development of human consciousness and self-awareness. Seligman, peterson, csikszentmihalyi: positive psychology movement (focuses on strengths and virtues; what goes well) Has a ph. d. in clinical & educational psychology, columbia teachers college (trained as a scientist) Then started working in a child guidance clinic; worked as a therapist. Therapists then were trained as psychoanalysts with a little bit of behaviorism sprinkled in. Dropped the word patient (called them clients) (above two bullets happened when he was working in the child guidance clinic. 1939: wrote clinical treatment of the problem child (don"t need to know this) Hired at ohio state university as a full professor in 1940 (usually have to go through 15-20 years of going up through the ranks of professors before this) Shows that his work was very valued.
