Everyone has a unique personality, yet somehow everyone falls under just four major theories of personalities, Psychodynamic, traits, humanistic, and social cognitive theory. There are four functions of personalities theories which are used to provide, explain, explore and determinate. Providing is a way or organizing what we know about others and ourselves. Explaining allows differences between individuals. Exploring is a function to allow us to see how people conduct their lives.
Personalities theories allow us to determine ways to improve lives. This theory is of Freud's, which consists of the theory that personality and behavior are shaped by conflicts and the unconscious forces.
Frued believed that behavior is motivated by internal/ …show more content…
Another strength includes plenty of people with psychological disturbances do recollect childhood traumas. Freud's theory provides a comprehensive framework to describe human personality. Freud also dehumanized the distress making their suffering more comprehensible to the rest of society by developing a method of therapy, Freud encouraged a more optimistic view regarding psychological distress. Mental illness could in ways at least be treated.
On the other hand, Freud's theory has some flaws. For instance, where it has the explanatory power it lacks scientific validity.
As an example of a flaw, the psychodynamic model can provide believable explanations for the causes of childhood trauma, abnormality, but lacks the tangible legitimate research evidence needed to support the theory. Freud based his ideas mainly on his own subjective analysis which consisted of middle-class Viennese women. That study of the Viennese women was very biased because they all had serious emotional problems.
Also, another weakness, Psychoanalysis depends on the therapist's subjunctive interoperation. That means the psychoanalysis depends heavily on the therapist's interoperation on what the client …show more content…
The humanistic theory is when psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving. Some strengths of the Humanistic Approach is that the main focus is on the individual's behavior. That means that instead of focusing on the unconscious behavior, mind or even genes, the attention goes to the individual. Also, the idea of most people is satisfied. The humanistic approach values self-fulfillment and personal goals. On the flip side, there are some weaknesses to the Humanistic Approach, such as promoting frustration among clients. Clients get annoyed when they have to think for themselves and get confused when they cannot. Likewise, clients get disappointed when the answers to their problems don't get resolved. Another negative is that experience is required for the humanist theory, and there are learning style
Personalities theories allow us to determine ways to improve lives. This theory is of Freud's, which consists of the theory that personality and behavior are shaped by conflicts and the unconscious forces.
Frued believed that behavior is motivated by internal/ …show more content…
Another strength includes plenty of people with psychological disturbances do recollect childhood traumas. Freud's theory provides a comprehensive framework to describe human personality. Freud also dehumanized the distress making their suffering more comprehensible to the rest of society by developing a method of therapy, Freud encouraged a more optimistic view regarding psychological distress. Mental illness could in ways at least be treated.
On the other hand, Freud's theory has some flaws. For instance, where it has the explanatory power it lacks scientific validity.
As an example of a flaw, the psychodynamic model can provide believable explanations for the causes of childhood trauma, abnormality, but lacks the tangible legitimate research evidence needed to support the theory. Freud based his ideas mainly on his own subjective analysis which consisted of middle-class Viennese women. That study of the Viennese women was very biased because they all had serious emotional problems.
Also, another weakness, Psychoanalysis depends on the therapist's subjunctive interoperation. That means the psychoanalysis depends heavily on the therapist's interoperation on what the client …show more content…
The humanistic theory is when psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving. Some strengths of the Humanistic Approach is that the main focus is on the individual's behavior. That means that instead of focusing on the unconscious behavior, mind or even genes, the attention goes to the individual. Also, the idea of most people is satisfied. The humanistic approach values self-fulfillment and personal goals. On the flip side, there are some weaknesses to the Humanistic Approach, such as promoting frustration among clients. Clients get annoyed when they have to think for themselves and get confused when they cannot. Likewise, clients get disappointed when the answers to their problems don't get resolved. Another negative is that experience is required for the humanist theory, and there are learning style