Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago is a senator of the 16th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines. In her track record as a public servant, she worked under the cabinet of some past presidents of the country. She is very famous for her actions on penalizing some law violators under her department. As for her personality, she can be described as a person who is very strong, vocal and highly intellectual. She has this character of not being afraid of expressing her opinion to those people she criticized. Also, she is an activist for some certain issues on the society and the government today regarding corruption like the PDAF scam.
Under the lens of Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, we can use some concepts under this school of thought that strongly pinpoints augmentation or the integration of a person. With the use of concept of inferiority feeling, we can analyze the personality of Sen. Miriam Santiago if she uses this basic curiosity feeling to strive for success (social interest) or for her strive of superiority (selfish interest). Also we can view of how her personality was formed by using some core concepts under this school of thought like the style of her life and her birth order.
First, for the concept of the style of her life, we can analyze the senator’s personality of having this sense of strict following of the rules and laws. She was raised by a father who was a court judge and mother who was a college dean. In her parents alone, we can say that she was raised under law. According to her interviews, during her childhood and adolescence, she had to follow strictly her mother’s order to study well and have less time to play. For this instance, we can infer that her style of life of being obedient to follow the ru...
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...kes her strive for either success or superiority, thus, creating this personality that is too unique for us to observe in an individual. As for observation, Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s person, as for many people can see, is greatly is in the interest of the public for the success of humanity rather for superiority.
In conclusion, as for Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, we have this inferiority feeling to strive for either to have a final goal of success or superiority. As for Adler, we, people by nature are emphatic and we are men and women for others. In this school of thought, man is not viewed as a certain broken piece of glass but man is viewed as a whole integrated being. It stressed the sense of uniqueness of every individual for we are differently created by our experiences and we have this right to create ourselves out of our individual free will.
I am choosing to write my essay focusing on Nancy Pelosi, arguably one of the most influential politicians of her time, and certainly one of the outstanding ladies of the political world. Not only was she the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House, she also was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at Seneca Falls. She ranks with the most consequential speakers, certainly in the last 75 years.”(Burstyn) Nancy Pelosi was born on March 26th in 1940 and she has represented San Francisco for approximately 29 years. This however is not by far her most notable achievement, speaker of the house aside, under her guidance the 111th US Congress was said to be the most productive in the history of its conception. This means that she was able to oversee the 111th Congress in a manner that minimized the terrible three, collective action problems, commitment problems, and coordination problems. These problems all come down to the inability to make decisions, and are extremely ponderous to efficiency. She ran it as famously, even though the house was so divided when she took the pos...
Alfred Adler was born in 1870. He published his first major psychology book, Understanding Human Nature, in 1959. Alder has a passionate concern for the common person and he was very outspoken about child-rearing practices, school reforms, and prejudices that resulted in conflict. Alder created 32 child guidance clinics in the Vienna public schools and began training teachers, social workers, physicians, and other professionals. Alder believes that where we are striving to go is more important than where we have come from. He saw humans as both the c...
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In chapter 3, Harvey Molotch, explains how each human being has a unique personality, character, and identity. Molotch believes that the people and the contact we have with different people influences our identity. He also describes psychoanalyst Rene Spitz study with babies and small children in an orphanage to a nursery for the children of incarcerated mothers. While the babies were in the nursery, they were healthy and happy. However, the children that were in the orphanage they were abandoned and miss treated. This lead to the discovery that poor emotional and physical health was because of the of the way they were miss treated. Molotch also explains that humans want to belong in a group that accepts them. Humans hind things from people
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Freud, Jung, and Adler each contributed essential concepts in accordance to one’s personality and environment. Focusing on one’s personality, each theorist assisted in the understanding of personality and each theory is still being used today throughout many therapy sessions. Throughout one’s education, one will go through personal development, seeking to find who he/she is and along the way react to life’s events accordingly. Academic success and developmental are hand in hand, allowing persons to set goals and develop plans to reach each goal. Each theory provides a different aspect in one’s personality which leads to the behaviors of that individual. According to Richard E. Watts, “Adlerian counseling theory affirms that humans are characterized by unity across the broad spectrum of personality-cognitions, affect, and behavior. Style of life, the Adlerian term for personality, is a cognitive blueprint
The psychodynamic approach lends itself to being a controversial yet highly influential theory in the history of psychology. The theory has become one of the most significant psychological approaches and its originator, Sigmund Freud, has become a major influence in modern psychology. The psychodynamic approach largely focuses on motivation and past experiences which develop and individual’s personality. Freud used the iceberg metaphor to outline the three states of consciousness and argued that only twenty percent of the mind represents the conscious. In addition he theorised that there was a pre-conscious mind which represents general memory. Finally, the unconscious mind which is essentially the reservoir of repressed or hidden experiences and desire.
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A Comparison of the Main Approaches to Personality Psychology Psychology of personality is a difficult concept to define and quantify, therefore most personality theories, however different they may be in other respects, share the basic assumption, that personality is a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking, that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another. Most theories attempting to explain personality represent part of the classic psychological Nature verse Nurture debate. In other words, is personality “inherited”, or developed through our interactions with the environment. In addition, we shall compare and contrast two of the main approaches to personality psychology by concentrating on Psychoanalytical Theory (Freud) and Social Learning Theory (Bandura). By looking at the Psychodynamic approach, developed by Freud, we can argue that it emphasizes the interplay of unconscious psychological processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behaviours.
Adler’s theory holds that conscious aspects of behavior are central to the development of personality. A major tenet of the theory is that individuals strive to become successful, the best that they can be. This theory places a lot of emphasis on the birth order. It is believed that birth order is not just the simple biological ordinal position; born first, second, third. To the contrary it is a second system of birth order of youngest child, oldest child, middle child, determining an individual’s psychological position. He believed
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The use of a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors is what Funder uses to define personality (Funder, 2013). Using this definition of personality the best ways to theorize about Subject A, or Paco, is to use the “Big Five” and use his Culture. Parts of these two theories can help to explain certain parts of Paco’s personality.
Deep in the minds of human beings lies a vast ocean of emotions and experiences. The human mind is often misconstrued and simplified by those who possess one, but delving deeper into the mind and it’s processes you see a whole other world that is veiled beneath the surface. One of the most famous examples of the human mind is the image of an iceberg, what is on the surface is so minimal compared to the immense body that lies underneath. Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalysis and believed in the idea of the unconscious and subconscious that help power who we are. Through psychoanalysis Freud began to reclaim the self as an individual and stressed the importance of the external world and it’s direct role with the internal realm of an individual. Although it was originally found to be a sort of therapy for those with mental illnesses, it has an interesting and analytical and philosophical view of the self, and through this spawned new beliefs in philosophy. Through the establishment of the id, superego, and ego, and the past’s affect on the shaping the present state of the self, psychoanalysis reclaims the self for an individual and is successful in doing so.
This book sets off with the ideas of 50 popular psychologists and comprises their development over a century in time. It explores and provides their crucial thoughts and insights into the personality, mind and human nature, bringing together their most influential concepts and theories collected.