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Fromm Flashcards

1
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contributes to feelings of loneliness, isolation and homelessness

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self-awareness

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2
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involves historical and cultural perspective rather than strictly a psychological viewpoint

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humanistic psychoanalysis

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3
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resulted from burden of freedom and produced feelings of loneliness and isolation

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basic anxiety

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4
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proponent of humanistic psychoanalysis

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erich fromm

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5
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major theme of humanistic psychoanalysis

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concept of loneliness

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6
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“to be human is to be ____”

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isolated and lonely

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represents the basic condition of human existence that separates human from animal nature

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loneliness

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contributions of fromm in understanding personality

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  • existential dichotomies
  • escape mechanisms
  • character orientations
  • personality disorders
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two-horned human dilemma (acquired facility to reason) or problem that has no solution because none of the alternatives it presents is entirely satisfactory

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dichotomy

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10
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existence of dichotomies that characterize human condition give rise to the _____

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5 basic needs

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3 existential dichotomy

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  • aspiring for immortality but death is inevitable
  • conceptualizing the goal of complete realization, but aware that life is too short to reach that goal
  • people are ultimately alone, yet we can’t tolerate isolation
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12
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5 existential basic needs of human existence

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  • relatedness
  • transcendence
  • rootedness
  • sense of identity
  • frame of reference / orientation
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13
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the urge to rise above a passive and accidental existence and into ‘the realm of purposefulness and freedom’

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transcendence

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14
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capacity to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity. To say “I am I” or “I am the subject of my actions”

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sense of identity

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15
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drive for union with another person through (1) submission (2)
power, and (3) love.

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relatedness

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16
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need to establish roots or to feel at home again in the world

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rootedness

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17
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Enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them.

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frame of reference / orientation

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18
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positive component of relatedness

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love

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19
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positive component of transcendence

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creativeness

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20
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positive component of rootedness

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wholeness

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21
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positive component of sense of identity

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individuality

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22
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positive component of frame of orientation

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rational goals

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23
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negative component of transcendence

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destructiveness

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24
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negative component of frame of orientation

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irrational goals

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25
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negative component of relatedness

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submission or domination

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26
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negative component of sense of identity

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adjustment to a group

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27
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driving forces to cope with/reduce basic anxiety

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mechanisms of escape

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28
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3 mechanisms of escape

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  • authoritarianism
  • destructiveness
  • conformity
29
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seeking to do away with other people but not on a continuous relationship

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destructiveness

30
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Tendency to give up the independence of one’s own individual self and to fuse one’s self with somebody or something outside oneself, to acquire the strength that individual lacks

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authoritarianism

31
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2 forms of authoritarianism

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  • masochism
  • sadism
32
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giving up individuality and becoming whatever people desire them to be

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conformity

33
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A person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things

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character orientations

34
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relatively permanent system of all noninstinctual strivings through which man relates himself to the human and natural world

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character

35
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Fromm believed that character is a substitute for _____

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instincts

36
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people related to the world in two ways:

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  • assimilation
  • socialization
37
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acquiring and using things

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assimilation

38
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relating to self and others

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socialization

39
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character orientations may be:

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  • nonproductive
  • productive
40
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nonproductive character orientations

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  • receptive type
  • exploitative type
  • hoarding type
  • marketing type
41
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Tendency to keep and save what was obtained, holding everything inside and do not let go of anything

  • possessive
  • suffocating
  • living in the past
  • repellant to anything new
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hoarding type

42
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  • feels that the source of all good lies outside themselves
  • more concerned with receiving than giving
  • masochistic orientation
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receptive type

43
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sadistic orientation, believes that all good lies outside themselves but does not expect to receive it, so it should be taken forcibly

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exploitative type

44
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  • sees self as a commodity, personal values dependent on what is in demand, new or opportunity
  • without a past, future and no permanent principles of values
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marketing type

45
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productive character orientation

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  • working
  • loving
  • reasoning
46
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people who work toward positive freedom and a continuing realization of their potential

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productive character types

47
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Healthy people value ____ not as an end in itself, but as a means of creating self-expression

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work

48
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has care, responsibility, respect and knowledge

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productive love

49
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a passionate love of life and all that is alive

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biophilia

50
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capacity for productive love starts with _____

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self-love

51
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motivated by a concerned interest in another person or object. They know themselves for who they are and have no need for self delusion

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productive thinking (reasoning)

52
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more of a function of the type of relationship between a child and his parents than of stages

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development of personality

53
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3 types of relationships between a child and his parents

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  • symbiotic relatedness
  • withdrawal destructiveness
  • genuine productive love
54
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negative relatedness or distance and indifference

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withdrawal destructiveness

55
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entails the four essential elements of love

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genuine productive love

56
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failure to attain independence, signified immaturity and pseudo forms of love

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symbiotic relatedness

57
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4 essential elements of love

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  • mutual respect
  • care
  • responsibility
  • knowledge
58
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active concern for the life and growth of the loved person

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care

59
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ability to see the other person as he is and that the same time accept his unique individuality

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respect

60
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an ability and readiness to respond to the needs expressed/unexpressed of the person loved

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responsibility

61
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experience of union with another person with full awareness of the total being of his loved one

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knowledge

62
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3 severe personality disorders (syndrome of decay)

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  • necrophilia
  • narcissism
  • incestuous symbiosis
63
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syndrome of growth

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  • biophilia
  • love
  • positive freedom
64
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Alternative character orientation to biophilia; Happens when social conditions stunt the natural love of life, then adopts a necrophilic orientation

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necrophilia

65
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Impedes the perception of reality so that everything belonging to a narcissistic person is highly valued and everything belonging to another is devalued

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malignant narcissism

66
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extreme dependence on the mother or mother surrogate

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incestuous symbiosis

67
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aim of fromm’s psychotherapy

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  • for patients to come to know themselves
  • to help patients find satisfaction of their basic human needs
68
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Fromm’s view on dreams

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  • expressed in symbolic language
  • universal
  • accidental
  • depend on the dreamer’s mood before going to sleep

Theories of Personality (19 decks)

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