CHAPTER 13:

PERSONALITY
PSYCHODYNAMIC
THEORY
SAMWISE GAMGEE https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=tqJGPzAwyV8
SAMWISE GAMGEE
He meets kindness with kindness-in-excess.
He rarely sits idle while a worthy cause remains unfinished.

These descriptions of Sam’s personality correlate with certain traits. This is something
that we will go over later when we study Trait Theory.
OVERVIEW OF THE DAY:
1. Brief Definition of Personality
2. Overview of major Theories
3. Start of Psychodynamic Theory

Objectives:
The student will:
1. Summarize the concept of personality
2. Investigate Freud’s psychoanalysis techniques
 An individual’s
PERSONALITY characteristic patterns
of thoughts, feelings,
and behaviors
OVERVIEW OF THEORIES
Perspective Founding Theorists
Psychodynamic Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Karen
Horney, and Alfred Adler
Humanistic Carl Rogers and Abraham
Maslow
Trait Theory Myers-Briggs and Hans Eysenck
Social-Cognitive George Kelley and Walter
Mischel
The Viewpoint in a sentence:
People are viewed as struggling
between their animal instincts and
the pressures of socialization
People are viewed as seeking
personal growth and striving
toward becoming their full selves
People exhibit consistent
psychological traits such as
extraversion or deceitfulness
People behave according to how
they cope with social pressures
and solve social problems
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
These theories focus on the inner forces (our unconscious)
that interact to make us who we are.
In this view: Behavior and human emotions develop in a
dynamic interplay between conscious and unconscious
processes.
SIGMUND FREUD
Sigmund Freud began as a physician in Vienna
He decided to delve deeper into how mental and physical symptoms could be
caused by purely psychological factors
He focused a lot on the unconscious. He believed that many of our mental
processes occur in the unconscious without our awareness.
This idea led to his theory, psychoanalysis which is the focus on the unconscious
and its role in physical processes.
 PSYCHOANALYSIS: TECHNIQUES
 Free Association:
Encouraged the patient
speak whatever come to
mind. The therapist would
then trace a flow of
thoughts into the past and
into the unconscious.
PSYCHOANALYSIS: TECHNIQUES CONT.
Freudian Slips: There are many slips
and mistakes studied and analyzed by
Freud in order to prove they are not
hazardous but meaningful acts related to
his theory of the functioning of the
unconscious mind.
OVERVIEW
1. Brief Definition of Personality
2. Overview of major Theories
3. Start of Psychodynamic Theory
1. Psychoanalysis Techniques

Objectives:
The student will:
1. Summarize the concept of personality
2. Investigate Freud’s psychoanalysis techniques
 Summarize personality
TICKET OUT THE DOOR and explain one of the
psychoanalysis
techniques.