Theories of Personality 9th Edition

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 327 to survive. “Not until I developed some ‘fight,’ some sense of personal responsibil- ...

328 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories into a painless method of reaching self-fulfillment. People can aspire to psycho- l ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 329 existence takes precedence over essence. Existence means to emerge or to become; esse ...

330 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories no sense of Dasein, no unity of self and world. As people strive to gain power over ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 331 to grasp what it means to exist, one needs to grasp the fact that he might not exist, ...

332 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories The fear of death or nonbeing often provokes us to live defensively and to receive ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 333 underlying sense of dread and anxiety. The failure to confront death serves as a temp ...

334 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories proportionate to the threat. But anxiety can become neurotic or sick. May (1967) de ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 335 The second form of guilt stems from our inability to perceive accurately the world of ...

336 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories Care, Love, and Will Philip had a history of taking care of others, especially wome ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 337 result, children learn to disassociate will from the blissful love they had previ- ou ...

338 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories we do anything for the beloved except accept him, be with him, and enjoy him. It is ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 339 Forms of Freedom May (1981) recognized two forms of freedom—freedom of doing and free ...

340 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories May suggested that freedom and destiny, like love-hate or life-death, are not antit ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 341 addiction, and popular culture in a vain effort to find meaning in their lives. Myths ...

342 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories of Oedipus’s life—birth, exile and separation, identity, incest and patricide, repr ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 343 idea that psychotherapy should reduce anxiety and ease feelings of guilt. Instead, he ...

344 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories because it emanated from an external (i.e., the therapist’s) frame of reference. Ma ...

Chapter 11 May: Existential Psychology 345 by Kierkegaard and Otto Rank. A basic argument of these existentialists (as well as w ...

346 Part III Humanistic/Existential Theories conscious, they manipulated death salience in university students (60% female). The ...