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contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation and homelessness

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self-awareness

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involves historical and cultural perspective rather than strictly a psychological viewpoint

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humanistic psychoanalysis

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resulted from burden of freedom and produced feelings of loneliness and isolation

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basic anxiety

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proponent of humanistic psychoanalysis

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erich fromm

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major theme of humanistic psychoanalysis

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concept of loneliness

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“to be human is to be ____”

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isolated and lonely

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represents the basic condition of human existence that separates human from animal nature

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loneliness

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contributions of fromm in understanding personality

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  • existential dichotomies
  • escape mechanisms
  • character orientations
  • personality disorders
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two-horned human dilemma (acquired facility to reason) or problem that has no solution because none of the alternatives it presents is entirely satisfactory

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dichotomy

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existence of dichotomies that characterize human condition give rise to the _____

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5 basic needs

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3 existential dichotomy

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  • aspiring for immortality but death is inevitable
  • conceptualizing the goal of complete realization, but aware that life is too short to reach that goal
  • people are ultimately alone, yet we can’t tolerate isolation
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5 existential basic needs of human existence

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  • relatedness
  • transcendence
  • rootedness
  • sense of identity
  • frame of reference / orientation
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the urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into ‘the realm of purposefulness and freedom’

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transcendence

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capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity. To say “I am I” or “I am the subject of my actions”

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sense of identity

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drive for union with another person through (1) submission (2)
power, and (3) love.

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relatedness

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need to establish roots or to feel at home again in the world

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rootedness

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Enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them.

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frame of reference / orientation

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positive component of relatedness

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love

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positive component of transcendence

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creativeness

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positive component of rootedness

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wholeness

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positive component of sense of identity

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individuality

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positive component of frame of orientation

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rational goals

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negative component of transcendence

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destructiveness

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negative component of frame of orientation

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irrational goals

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negative component of relatedness
submission or domination
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negative component of sense of identity
adjustment to a group
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driving forces to cope with/reduce basic anxiety
mechanisms of escape
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3 mechanisms of escape
- authoritarianism - destructiveness - conformity
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seeking to do away with other people but not on a continuous relationship
destructiveness
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Tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside oneself, to acquire the strength that individual lacks
authoritarianism
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2 forms of authoritarianism
- masochism - sadism
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giving up individuality and becoming whatever people desire them to be
conformity
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A person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things
character orientations
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relatively permanent system of all noninstinctual strivings through which man relates himself to the human and natural world
character
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Fromm believed that character is a substitute for _____
instincts
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people related to the world in two ways:
- assimilation - socialization
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acquiring and using things
assimilation
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relating to self and others
socialization
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character orientations may be:
- nonproductive - productive
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nonproductive character orientations
- receptive type - exploitative type - hoarding type - marketing type
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Tendency to keep and save what was obtained, holding everything inside and do not let go of anything - possessive - suffocating - living in the past - repellant to anything new
hoarding type
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- feels that the source of all good lies outside themselves - more concerned with receiving than giving - masochistic orientation
receptive type
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sadistic orientation, believes that all good lies outside themselves but does not expect to receive it, so it should be taken forcibly
exploitative type
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- sees self as a commodity, personal values dependent on what is in demand, new or opportunity - without a past, future and no permanent principles of values
marketing type
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productive character orientation
- working - loving - reasoning
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people who work toward positive freedom and a continuing realization of their potential
productive character types
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Healthy people value ____ not as an end in itself, but as a means of creating self-expression
work
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has care, responsibility, respect and knowledge
productive love
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a passionate love of life and all that is alive
biophilia
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capacity for productive love starts with _____
self-love
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motivated by a concerned interest in another person or object. They know themselves for who they are and have no need for self delusion
productive thinking (reasoning)
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more of a function of the type of relationship between a child and his parents than of stages
development of personality
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3 types of relationships between a child and his parents
- symbiotic relatedness - withdrawal destructiveness - genuine productive love
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negative relatedness or distance and indifference
withdrawal destructiveness
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entails the four essential elements of love
genuine productive love
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failure to attain independence, signified immaturity and pseudo forms of love
symbiotic relatedness
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4 essential elements of love
- mutual respect - care - responsibility - knowledge
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active concern for the life and growth of the loved person
care
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ability to see the other person as he is and that the same time accept his unique individuality
respect
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an ability and readiness to respond to the needs expressed/unexpressed of the person loved
responsibility
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experience of union with another person with full awareness of the total being of his loved one
knowledge
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3 severe personality disorders (syndrome of decay)
- necrophilia - narcissism - incestuous symbiosis
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syndrome of growth
- biophilia - love - positive freedom
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Alternative character orientation to biophilia; Happens when social conditions stunt the natural love of life, then adopts a necrophilic orientation
necrophilia
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Impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued
malignant narcissism
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extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate
incestuous symbiosis
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aim of fromm's psychotherapy
- for patients to come to know themselves - to help patients find satisfaction of their basic human needs
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Fromm's view on dreams
- expressed in symbolic language - universal - accidental - depend on the dreamer's mood before going to sleep

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