Category: Personality Theories
Person-Centered Theory
Rogers carefully crafted his person-centered theory of personality to meet his own demands for a structural model that could explain and predict outcomes of client-centered therapy. However, the theory has implications far beyond the therapeutic setting.
Erich Fromm & Humanistic Psychoanalysis
Erich Fromm’s humanistic psychoanalysis looks at people from the perspective of psychology, history, and anthropology. Influenced by Freud and Horney, Fromm developed a more culturally oriented theory than Freud and a much broader theory than Horney.
May & Existential Theory
May took the view that modern people frequently run away both from making choices and from assuming responsibility.
Freud and Psychoanalysis
Freud saw mental functioning as operating on three levels—unconscious, preconscious, and conscious.
Social Cognitive Theory – Bandura
Bandura’s social cognitive theory takes an agentic perspective, meaning that humans have some limited ability to control their lives.
Sullivan & Interpersonal Theory
Sullivan insisted in Interpersonal Theory of Personality that personality is shaped almost entirely by the relationships we have with other people.
Karen Horney and Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Karen Horney’s psychoanalytic social theory, assumes that social and cultural conditions, especially during childhood, have a powerful effect on later personality.
Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology
Carl Jung believed that people are extremely complex beings who possess a variety of opposing qualities, such as introversion and extraversion, masculinity and femininity, and rational and irrational drives.
Behavioral Analysis and Skinner
Skinner believed that human behavior, like any other natural phenomena, is subject to the laws of science, and that psychologists should not attribute inner motivations to it.
Social Learning Theory & Rotter
Rotter’s interactionist theory is based on five basic hypotheses: 1) humans interact with their meaningful environments, 2) human personality is learned, 3) personality has a basic unity, 4) motivation is goal directed, 5) people are capable of anticipating events.
