Fromm - Humanistic Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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States that people have lost their connection with nature and each other; emphasizes the influences of sociobiological factors, history, economics, and class structure on personality

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Humanistic Psychoanalysis

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Feelings of isolation and loneliness

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Basic anxiety

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Fromm assumed that individual personality can be understood only in light of _______

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Human history

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Fromm assumed that humans have been torn away from their _______ and left with _______ to adapt to a changing world

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from their prehistoric union with nature and left with no powerful instincts to adapt to a changing world

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An ability to reason about one’s isolated conditions

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Human dilemma

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The first existential dichotomy is that between __. Although we desire life, our ability to __ tells us that we will die

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life and death; reason

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What is the second dichotomy

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We are capable of setting goals for individual growth that we know we can never reach

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Fromm’s 3rd existential dichotomy

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We recognize that we are ultimately alone, but we cannot tolerate isolation

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5 Human Needs

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Relatedness
Transcendence
Rootedness
Sense of identity
Frame of orientation

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Human/existential need to unite with another person or persons

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Relatedness

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People can relate to the world by…

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Submission, power, love

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Only route to relatedness wherein a person can unite with the world while also achieving individuality and integrity

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Love

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Human/existential need to rise above our passive and accidental existence into the realm of purposefulness & freedom

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Transcendence

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Killing for reasons other than survival

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Malignant aggression

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Human/existential need to establish roots and to feel at home again

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Rootedness

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Productive strategy of rootedness

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Growing beyond the security of our mother and establishing ties with the outside world

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Nonproductive strategy of rootedness

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Becoming fixated and afraid to move beyond the security of our mother; externally dependent

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Human/existential need to be aware of ourselves as a separate entity

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Sense of identity

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Productive strategy of sense of identity

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Individuality

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Nonproductive strategy of sense of identity

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Adjustment to a group

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Human/existential need for a road map to make our way through the world; enables people to organize the various stimuli that impinge on them

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Frame of orientation

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Productive strategy of frame of orientation

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Rational goals

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Nonproductive strategy of frame of orientation

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Irrational goals

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A road map without a goal or destination is worthless

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Mechanisms to reduce the frightening sense of isolation and loneliness
Mechanisms of escape
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Tendency to give up one's independence and unite with a powerful partner
Authoritarianism
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Stems from feelings of powerlessness and can be disguised as love/loyalty
Masochism
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Attempts to achieve unity with another person/s by dominating, exploiting, or hurting others
Sadism
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Masochism is more neurotic and socially harmful than sadism. TF
FALSE
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Doing away with other people/thing
Destructiveness
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Surrendering one's individuality to meet the wishes of others
Conformity
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Human dilemma can only be solved through
positive freedom
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Spontaneous activity of the whole, integrated personality (rational & emotional personalities)
Positive freedom
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Successful solution to the human dilemma of being part of the natural world while still keeping individuality
Positive freedom
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A person's relatively permanent way of relating to people and things
Character orientation
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Nonproductive character orientations
Receptive, exploitative, hoarding, marketing
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Productive character orientations
Love, work, reasoning
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A nonproductive character orientation wherein one believes that all good lies outside themselves and relate to the world by receiving things, including love and material possessions
Receptive
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A nonproductive character orientation wherein one believes that all good lies outside themselves and act aggressively to get what they want
Exploitative
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A nonproductive character orientation wherein one values things or people they have already obtained and hold on to these
Hoarding
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A nonproductive character orientation wherein one sees themselves in constant demand and changes their values to match whatever they think others want them to be
Marketing
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Positive qualities - loyalty, acceptance, trust Negative qualities - passivity, submissiveness, lacks self-confidence These are all qualities of a _______ character orientation
Receptive
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Positive qualities - impulsive, proud, charming, self-confident Negative qualities - egocentric, conceited, arrogant, seducing These are all qualities of a _______ character orientation
Exploitative
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Positive qualities - orderliness, cleanliness, punctuality Negative qualities - rigidity, sterility, obstinacy, compulsivity, lack of creativity These are all qualities of a _______ character orientation
Hoarding
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Positive qualities - changeability, open-mindedness, adaptability, generosity Negative qualities - aimlessness, opportunism, inconsistency, wastefulness These are all qualities of a _______ character orientation
Marketing
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This productive character orientation is characterized by care, responsibility, respect, knowledge
Love (socialization)
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A passionate love of life and all that's alive
Biophilia
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This productive character orientation is directed towards attaining positive freedom and as a means of creative self-expression
Work (Assimilation)
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This productive character orientation is motivated by a concerned interest in another person or object
Reasoning (Thinking)
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A personality disorder characterized by a love of death
Necrophilia
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A personality disorder characterized by a belief that everything belonging to themselves has great value and anything belonging to others is worthless; preoccupation with the sel
Malignant Narcissism
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Obsessive attention to one's health
Hypochondriasis
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Preoccupied guilt about past offenses
Moral hypochondriasis
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A personality disorder characterized by extreme dependence on one's mother or mother surrogate
Incestuous Symbiosis
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Unhealthy character orientations that exhibit all 3 personality disorders
Syndrome of decay
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Healthy character orientations that display qualities of biophilia, love, and positive freedom
Syndrome of growth
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Lack of satisfaction in any of the human/existential needs can lead to insanity
TRUE
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Physiological needs are enough to resolve our human dilemma. TF
FALSE
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T/F: Healthy people see others as they want them to be
False Healthy people see others as they are and not as they would wish them to be