Personality Development
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2003
172 pages
978-0-335-22787-7 (ISBN)
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This book draws out the essence of a range of personality theories in a clear and accessible way, moving from the seminal works of Freud and other prominent analytical theorists, to the stage theories of Erikson and Levinson and the development of personality as it is viewed in existential and person-centred theory.
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Personality Development
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Content
- Front Cover
- Halftitle
- Series titles
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series editor's preface
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic developmental theories
- Sigmund Freud's developmental stage theory
- The oral stage
- The anal stage
- The phallic stage
- The latency stage
- The genital stage
- Karl Abraham on psychosexual stages
- Anna Freud and ego psychology
- Object relations theory
- Melanie Klein
- W.R.D. Fairbairn
- D.W. Winnicott
- Margaret Mahler
- Heinz Kohut
- John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth: attachment theory
- Daniel Stern
- Conclusions
- Chapter 2 The developmental theories of Erikson and Levinson
- Erik H. Erikson
- Erikson's eight-stage life cycle
- Stage 1. Infancy: trust versus mistrust
- Stage 2. Early childhood: autonomy versus shame and doubt
- Stages 3 and 4. Play age: initiative versus guilt (4 to 5 years)
- School age:industry versus inferiority
- Stage 5. Adolescence: identity versus identity diffusion
- Stage 6: Early adulthood: intimacy versus self-absorption
- Stage 7. Adulthood: generativity versus stagnation
- Stage 8. Old age: integrity versus despair
- The application of the theory to therapy
- Daniel Levinson: the seasons of a man's life
- The significance of transitions
- The research
- The eras
- Erikson and Levinson: similarities and differences
- Chapter 3 Personality development in person-centred theory
- Elements of developmental theory in Rogers' 19 propositions
- The development of the self and the self-concept
- Conditions of worth
- The locus of evaluation/The outcomes of conditions of worth
- Disturbance, distortion, denial
- David Mearns' and Brian Thorne's developments of Rogers'theory: configurations of self
- Conditions conducive to awareness and change
- The fully functioning person
- The seven-stage developmental model of counselling
- M. Cooper on person-centred developmental theory
- Chapter 4 Existential approaches
- Background
- Scientific reductionism versus (inter) subjectivity
- Scientific determinism versus freedom and choice
- 'Thrownness'
- Authenticity
- Ontological anxiety
- Being-in-the-world
- Existential views on personality development
- Early development
- Later development
- Conclusions
- Chapter 5 Moral development
- Lawrence Kohlberg: six stages of moral development
- Three levels of moral stages: pre-conventional, conventional andpost-conventional
- The distinctive features of moral judgement
- Theories of moral development: cognitive-developmental,socialization and psychoanalytic
- Carol Gilligan's feminist critique of Kohlberg'sdevelopmental theory
- Chapter 6 Feminist critiques of developmental theories
- Freud and penis envy
- Critiques of psychoanalytic and object relationsdevelopmental theories: Dorothy Dinnerstein, NancyChodorow and Jessica Benjamin
- Feminist critiques of humanistic developmental theory
- Conclusions
- Chapter 7 Cultural factors in personality development
- The revised Cross model of the development of black identity
- Stage 1: the pre-encounter stage
- Stage 2: the encounter stage
- Stage 3: the immersion and 'emersion' stage
- Stage 4: internalization
- Other models of black identity
- Paul Pedersen's ten frequent assumptions of cultural biasin counselling
- Chapter 8 Transpersonal and psycho-spiritual psychology
- Carl Jung and the spiritual dimension
- Roberto Assagioli and psychosynthesis
- Ken Wilber's levels of consciousness and the pre/trans fallacy
- James Fowler's faith development model
- Psychological crisis and spiritual emergence
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Back cover
