Part Four IV › Division III III › Section 436 436

Personality and the Self: Integration and Disintegration of the Person as a Whole

Subject Outline

ADefinitions of personality
- 1Physiological theories of personality: theories based on body humours, somatotypes, physiognomy, and phrenology
- 2Psychoanalytic theories of personality: the importance of id, ego, superego, life and death instincts, and the collective unconscious
- 3Social analytic theories of personality: the importance of drive to power, need achievement, and functional autonomy
- 4Eclectic theories of personality: role theories, factor analysis of personality traits
BMeasurement of personality
- 1Methods of assessment
- 2Evaluating assessment techniques
CPersonality functioning and adjustment
- 1The subjective aspect of personality: development of awareness of self
- 2Strains and challenges put on adequate personality functioning: physical, psychological, and social stresses; e.g., frustration, conflict, personal inadequacy, deprivation of accustomed gratification
- 3Responses to environmental strains on personality functioning: reactions, defense mechanisms, and adjustment dynamisms for coping with environmental demands
DPersisting disturbances of personality integration or functioning: mental disorders
- 1Major categories of mental disorders: organic mental disorders, schizophrenia, paranoid disorders, affective disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, posttraumatic stress disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, psychosexual disorders, disorders of infancy or childhood
- 2Prevalence of mental disorders: epidemiology
- 3Causation of mental disorders