Mental health & Mental illness (2) (CHAPTER 2)
Theories of Mental health (4)
Personality is defined as
“the characteristic way in which a person thinks, feels, and behaves; the ind pattern of behavior that each p
...
Mental health & Mental illness (2) (CHAPTER 2)
Theories of Mental health (4)
Personality is defined as
“the characteristic way in which a person thinks, feels, and behaves; the ind pattern of behavior that each person evolves, both
consciously and unconsciously, as his or her style of life or way of being.”
• Life-cycle developmentalists believe that people continue to develop and change throughout life, thereby suggesting the
possibility for renewal and
growth in adults.
• Stages are identified by age. However, personality is influenced by temperament (inborn personality characteristics) and the
environment.
• It is possible for behaviors from an unsuccessfully completed stage to be modified and corrected in a later stage.
• Stages overlap, and individuals may be working on tasks from more than one stage at a time.
• Individuals may become fixed in a certain stage and remain developmentally delayed.
• Personality disorders occur when personality traits become inflexible and personality functioning becomes individually and
interpersonally impaired.
o Psychoanalytic Theory
Sigmund Freud, who has been called the father of psychiatry, is credited as the first to identify development
by stages. He considered the first 5 years of a child's life to be the most important, because he believed that
an individual's basic character had been formed by the age of 5.
Freud's personality theory can be conceptualized according to structure and dynamics of the personality,
topography of the mind, and stages of pers
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