Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individuals distinctive character. Basically, it is organized differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. There are personality type taxonomies and subtypes. The two most focused on in this essay are "The Four Humors", created by the ancient Greeks, and the psychodynamic theory of personality by Sigmund Freud.
One of the earliest known theories of personality was proposed by Hippocrates. He characterized human behavior into four temperaments called 'humors', each dealing with a different bodily fluid. The humor "sanguine" was characterized by blood. If you had an excess of blood, you were considered to be optimistic. The phlegmatic …show more content…
For example, the language used in modern medicine. In medicine, humoral immunity or humoral regulation is used when describing substances such as hormones and antibodies that circulate throughout the body. It also uses the term blood dyscrasia to refer to any blood disease or abnormality. Another example is personality tests ranging from "Myer- Briggs Type Indicator Test" to "Keirsey Temperament …show more content…
His psychoanalytic method was designed to help patients resolve their problems by exploring their unconscious thoughts, motivations, and issues to uncover repressed memories and the reason for the repression of the memory, in order to build a stronger ego. The process of bringing unconscious thoughts and feelings to consciousness is brought about by encouraging the patient to talk in "free-association", sharing thoughts without editing, and talking about dreams. Psychoanalysis lacks direct involvement of the analyst because it encourages the patient to project their thoughts and feelings onto the analyst. He hoped that his research would give a solid scientific basis for his therapeutic technique.
Although Freud developed his method for the treatment of neuroses, some people today use psychoanalysis not as a cure, but as part of a process of self-discovery. This method has influenced many practices in psychology today such as counselling sessions performed by psychologists/ psychiatrists. They have the patient relax on a couch in their office and engage in a free association of ideas. As Freud did, the psychiatrists and psychologists sit behind the patient and listen and interpret these
One of the earliest known theories of personality was proposed by Hippocrates. He characterized human behavior into four temperaments called 'humors', each dealing with a different bodily fluid. The humor "sanguine" was characterized by blood. If you had an excess of blood, you were considered to be optimistic. The phlegmatic …show more content…
For example, the language used in modern medicine. In medicine, humoral immunity or humoral regulation is used when describing substances such as hormones and antibodies that circulate throughout the body. It also uses the term blood dyscrasia to refer to any blood disease or abnormality. Another example is personality tests ranging from "Myer- Briggs Type Indicator Test" to "Keirsey Temperament …show more content…
His psychoanalytic method was designed to help patients resolve their problems by exploring their unconscious thoughts, motivations, and issues to uncover repressed memories and the reason for the repression of the memory, in order to build a stronger ego. The process of bringing unconscious thoughts and feelings to consciousness is brought about by encouraging the patient to talk in "free-association", sharing thoughts without editing, and talking about dreams. Psychoanalysis lacks direct involvement of the analyst because it encourages the patient to project their thoughts and feelings onto the analyst. He hoped that his research would give a solid scientific basis for his therapeutic technique.
Although Freud developed his method for the treatment of neuroses, some people today use psychoanalysis not as a cure, but as part of a process of self-discovery. This method has influenced many practices in psychology today such as counselling sessions performed by psychologists/ psychiatrists. They have the patient relax on a couch in their office and engage in a free association of ideas. As Freud did, the psychiatrists and psychologists sit behind the patient and listen and interpret these