Brief history of the forces of psychology B

Brief history of the forces of psychology B. F. Skinner Behaviorist Individuals are shaped by their environment Sigmund Freud Psychoanalyst According to behaviorism, humans, rats, and all other animals exist as a function of their environment Individuals are basically neurotic and governed by inner processes Patients lie on the couch as their unconscious complexes unfold Carl Rogers Abe Maslow Humanistic Humans have an authentic self with a huge inherent potential

Top-Down Comparison B. F. Skinner Behaviorist Humans are like machines controlled by the environment Sigmund Freud Psychoanalyst Humans are like machines controlled by intrapsychic influences Carl Rogers Abe Maslow Humanistic Humans are not machines

Rousseau, Jean Jacques Human beings are essentially good, but are corrupted by the introduction of property, agriculture, science, and commerce Soren Kierkegaard The self is a synthesis of the infinite and finite, temporal and eternal, which can only find rest in God

Inner nature biological good source of health If denied, sickness Unique & Species. Wide Soft and delicate Never disappears

Rogers and Therapy “To really hear someone puts you in touch with deep psychological laws, the truths of the universe. ” “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be” “A ‘moment of therapy’ is when you see a human soul revealed before you with all its breathless wonder” “In those rare moments, when a deep realness in one meets a realness in the other …unless it happens occasionally, we are not living as human beings”