DO NOW Out of the neo-Freudians we learned about yesterday, who would say the following? 1) “The individual feels at home in life and feels his existence to be worthwhile just so far as he is useful to others and is overcoming feelings of inferiority.”

DO NOW Out of the neo-Freudians we learned about yesterday, who would say the following? 2) “The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women’s self-respect.”

DO NOW Out of the neo-Freudians we learned about yesterday, who would say the following? 3) “The collective unconscious explains why, for many people, spiritual concerns are deeply rooted and why people in differrent cultures share certain myths and images, such as mother as a symbol of nurturance.”

Neo-Freudians Psychodynamic Theories Carl Jung –concept of the “personal” and “collective” unconscious. –Introversion vs extroversion Alfred Adler –ideas of superiority and inferiority –Birth order Karen Horney –Studies on neurosis –Feminist perspective

Psychoanalysis Today Transference is likely to happen (couch sitting) The idea is to delve into your unconscious Pull out Manifest Content (actual subject matter) Then talk about the Latent Content (underlying meaning)

Getting into the Unconscious Hypnosis Dream Interpretation Free Association having people just randomly talk to themselves…and then interpreting the conversation Projective Tests tests that delves into the unconscious Ex: TAT and Rorschach Tests

Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures

Rorschach Inkblot Test  the most widely used projective test  a set of 10 inkblots designed by Hermann Rorschach  seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots

Projective Tests: Criticisms Critics argue that projective tests lack both reliability (consistency of results) and validity (predicting what it is supposed to) When evaluating the same patient, even trained raters come up with different interpretations (reliability). 2.Projective tests may misdiagnose a normal individual as pathological (validity).

Personality Tests Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessing personality types using a number of traits. For example, a feeling type personality is sympathetic, appreciative, and tactful. More research needed on this popular test’s validity. Sympathetic Appreciative Tactful Feeling Type Personality

21 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests originally developed to identify emotional disorders