Humanistic Approach To Personality Analysis

Analysis With this paper we are going to take a look into how humanistic and existential theories can help us understand, how the mind works. We’re going to have to look at these two theories to and in our study we can see what Carl Roger’s and Rollo May’s finding will help us get a better understanding of these concepts. When we look at the person-center theory, you can see the helps us get a better understanding of how the humanistic approach to personality. According to the finding in psychology you can see that there are some basic assumptions to this theory which helps us understand that people have natural tendency to have personality traits. This helps us to answer some questions on why people respond the way that they do. So we have to discuss how the theories can help us start a discussion on how personalities are formed and then we can understanding how people would react when presented with different types of situations. Person-centered theory helps us see how the person is going to respond in life and with each other base on the situation that they are presented with at that present time. So as we continue look at this we hope that we can at least get a better look into the mind and it will help push this …show more content…
With all relationships, and especially with therapeutic relationships, Rogers emphasized the importance of unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard refers to being warm and accepting toward an individual, without evaluation and reservation. This is complete acceptance of an individual without possessiveness that helps someone to feel comfortable, allowing for personal growth (Feist & Feist, 2009). Empathy between individuals allows for them to feel understood without feeling judged. Receipt of unconditional positive regard and empathy allows an individual to grow toward self-actualization and achieve psychological