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Majort theme of Humanistic Psychoanalytic theory

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the concept of loneliness

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To be human is?

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To be isolated and lonely

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Loneliness represents

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the basic condition of human existence ghat separates human from animal nature

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Self-awareness contributes to?

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feelings of loneliness, isolation and homelessness

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Humanity’s separation from the natural world has produced

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feelings of loneliness and isolation

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what kind of perspective is involved in humanistic psychoanalysis?,

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involves historical and cultural perspectives

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Birth Order of Fromm

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Only child

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Nationality of Fromm

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Orthodox Jewish

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Childhood years of Fromm

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evolved with the religious and scholars from the circle of his parents

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Father of Fromm

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son and grandson of rabbi

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Mother of Fromm

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niece of Talmudic scholar

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Fromm described his parents as?

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Neurotics; father being moody and mother prone to depression

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How did he became immersed with the works of Freud and Marx?

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The suicide of a woman, who was a friend of the family and the outbreak of WW1 impacted his teenage years, and their works answered his questions

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Adult Years of Fromm

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rejected his religion and became a socialist

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Contributions of Fromm in understanding Personality

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Existential Dichotomies, Five Existential Dichotomies, Escape Mechanisms, Character Orientations and Personality Disorders

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Dichotomy

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a two-horned human dilemma (acquired facility to reason) or a problem that has no solution because none of the alternative it presents is entirely satisfactory

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

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5 basic needs that stem from our existence and must be met for a person to develop fully

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First Existential Dichotomy

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between life and death

aspires immortality but self-awareness and reason is saying that life is inevitable

there is life after death to alter the fact that life ends with death

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Second Existential Dichotomy

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humans are capable of conceptualizing the goal of complete realization, but we are aware that life is too short to reach for that goal

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Third Existential Dichotomy

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people are ultimately alone, yet we cannot tolerate isolation

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5 Existential/Basic Needs of Human Existence

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Relatedness, Transcendence, Rootedness, Sense of Identity, and Frame of Reference/Orientation

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Relatedness

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the drive for union with another person through submission, love and power

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Transcendence

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the urge to rise above the passive and accidental existence and into “the realm of purposefulness and freedom”

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Rootedness

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

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Sense of Identity
the capacity to be aware of ourselves as separate entity to say "I am I" or "I am the subject of my actions"
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Frame of Reference/Orientation
enables people to organize the various stimula that impinge on them
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Positive and Negative Components of Relatedness
N- submission or domination; P - love
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Pos and Nega Components of Transcendence
N - destructiveness; P - creativeness
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Pos and Nega Components of Rootedness
N - Fixation; Posi - Wholeness
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Sense of Identity Pos and Nega Components
Nega - Adjustment to a group; Pos - Individuality
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Frame of Reference/Orientation Pos&Nega Components
Nega- Irrational goals; Posi - Rational goals
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Mechanisms of Escape
driving forces to cope with/reduce basic anxiety
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Three Escape Mechanisms
Authoritarianism, Destructiveness, Conformity
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Authoritarianism
tendency to give up the independence of one's own individual self and to fuse one's self with somebody or someone outside oneself
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2 forms of Authoritarianism
Masochism and Sadism
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Destructiveness
seeking to do away with other people but not in a continuous relationship destroying people and objects to restore lost feelings of power
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Conformity
giving up individuality and becoming whatever people desire them to be reacts predictably and mechanically, seldom expresses their own opinion, and clinging to expected standards of behavior
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Character Orientations
A person's relatively permanent way of relating to people and things
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Character
relatively permanent system of all non instinctual strivings through which man relates himself to the human and natural world
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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 - acquiring and using things Socialization - relating to self and others
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4 Nonproductive Character Orientations
Receptive, Exploitative, Hoarding and Marketing Type
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Receptive Type
feels that the source of all good lies outside themselves
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A masochistic orientation
more concerned with receiving than giving, and what others to shower them love, ideas and gifts
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Exploitative Type
a sadistic orientation - believes that all good lies outside themselves but does not expect to receive it so it should be taken forcibly aggresively take what they desire than passively receive it
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Marketing Type
sees self as a commodity, personal values are dependent on what is in demand, new or opportunity Without past, future or no permanent principles or values
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3 Dimensions of Productive Character Orientation
working, loving and reasoning
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Productive character types are people who work?
toward positive freedom and continuing realization of their potential
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Healthy people value work as?
not as an end in itself, but as a means of creating self-expression
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productive love has?
care, respect, responsibility and knowledge
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Biophilia
a passionate love of life and all that is alive
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Biophilics influence people through?
love, reason and example
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Productive thinking
motivated by concerned interest in another person or object
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For Fromm, the development of personality is?
more of a function of the type of rs between a child and his parents
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3 Types of Relationship between a Child and his parents
Symbiotic Relatedness, Withdrawal Destructiveness and Genuine Productive Love
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Symbiotic Relatedness
failure to attain independence, and signified immaturity and pseudo forms of love
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Withdrawal Destructiveness
negative relatedness or distance and indifference
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Genuine Productive Love
entails the four essential elements of love: mutual respect, care, responsibility and knowledge
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Care
active concern for the life and growth of the loved person
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Responsibility
ability and readiness to respond to the needs expressed/unexpressed by the person loved
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Respect
ability to see the person as he is and accept his unique individuality
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Knowledge
experience of union with another person with full awareness of the total being of his loved one
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Personality Disorders
unhealthy personalities marked by the problems with the 3 dimensions of productive character orientation
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Three Severe Personality Disorders
Necrophilia, Malignant Narcissism and Incentuous Symbiosis
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3 Syndrome of Growth
Biophilia, Love, Positive Freedom
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Necrophilia
alternative character orientation to biophilia
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Necrophilia happens when?
happens when social conditions stunt the natural love of life
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Examples of Necrophiliacs
warmongers, bullies, racists
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Destructive behavior is a reflection of
basic character
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Lifestyle of Necrophiliacs revolves around
death, destruction, disease and decay
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Malignant Narcissism
impedes the perception of reality so that everything belongs to the narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belong to another is devalued
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Malignant Narcissistic Persons
fixated on themselves, likely to internalize experiences and to dwell both on physical health and moral virtues
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Malignant Narcissistic people achieve security by?
holding on the belief that their extraordinary personal qualities give them superiority over everyone elss
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Incentuous Symbiosis
an extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate
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Incentuous Symbiosis is an exaggerated form of?
more common and more benign mother fixation
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Incentuous Symbiosis personalities
distorts reasoning powers, destroys the capacity for authentic love and prevents people from achieving independence and integrity
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Psychotherapy for Fromm
is more concerned on interpersonal aspects of a therapeutic encounter
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Aim of therapy
for patients to know themselves
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Therapy
help patients find satisfaction with their basic human needs
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Therapy should be built on a?
personal relationship between therapist and patient
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Fromm believed that dreams?
are expressed in symbolic language, some universal, others accidental and depend on the dreamer’s mood before going to sleep and part of analysis would be to ask individuals of associations in his life and find meaning.
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therapists should not try to be?
too scientific in understanding a patient
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What is crucial to help the individual develop a syndrome of growth?
Communciation and relatedness

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