PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH TO PERSONALITY

Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

Introduction

The first stream, in order of historical appearance is the radical behaviorism, Skinner has had as its chief representative, understands human nature subject to conditioning processes, especially operant conditioning, which governs not only overt behavior but also the internal or subjective behavior such as cognitive-linguistic processes. Radical behaviorism is based on control of behavior in terms of impact on functional analysis.

The important thing here is the role and impact of the behavior. All I had understood mentalism conscious and unconscious mental functions, from language, memory, the unconscious, etc., is described as subjective behavior, subject to their functions, their effect contingencies. Contrary to popular belief, the radical behaviorism of Skinner, it ignores the subjective processes, but the covert behaviors studied as a function of its consequences. This book analyzes the functions of human language as instrumental behavior. This incorporation of language is itself a modification of behavior therapy, which had been focused almost exclusively on motor behavior.

Discussion

The current developments of radical behaviorism, translate all cognitive therapy and traditional psychotherapy to a detailed functional analysis of language. Radical behaviorism has been criticized for their appearance mechanistic and reductionist views of human nature, by its extreme environmentalism and his hypomania when offered as the most effective therapy, when to be useful, there are many limitations (Davids, 2011). The second stream, which now coexists with the first and the third is cognitive therapy. Its main representatives are Ellis and Beck. Cognitive therapy is particularly interested in the importance of dysfunctional meaning of psychopathology. Cognitive therapists understand that most human suffering stems from irrational beliefs, assumptions or personal meanings acquired through experience.

The cognitive therapist's role is to teach the patient to be aware of these meanings dysfunctional, often of an unconscious or preconscious, and modify them through various means of exchange, which may include experimental verification techniques, rational discussion of beliefs, learning new behaviors, and virtually any existing therapy technique to be effective. Cognitive therapists often technically eclectic in using effective exchange procedures, from any psychotherapeutic tradition, but its systematic cognitive theory of human functioning (Levine & Munsch, 2011). Cognitive therapy is currently the focus of psychotherapy more in vogue, has numerous research, is the most recognized-with-behavioral contributions in international psychiatry and has provided effective methods of therapy for certain mental disorders, among which the effectiveness of non-psychotic depression.

However, as with the other tendencies in psychotherapy, has also been questioned, even from their same positions. He criticized, among other things: (1) the neglect of the organization of personal meanings in central structures versus other more peripheral, and therefore different ways of accessing them or their grade / difficulty of change, (2 ) having considered the therapeutic relationship as a child to meet the technical change, when this ratio seems basic to the same cognitive change, and (3) the subordination of affect and cognition, when interacting with her, even determined by their deeper levels, so the process of change involves an exploration of love many times, but his ...