1. The Humanistic Perspective Of Personality
Unit 5

2. Humanistic Psychology
In the 1960’s people became sick of Freud’s negativity.
Along came psychologists
who wanted to focus on
“healthy” people and how
to help them strive to “be all that they can be”.

3. Abraham Maslow’s Self Actualizing Person
Created the Hierarchy of Needs
Ultimately seek self- actualization
the process of fulfilling our potential
Maslow developed his ideas by studying what he termed “healthy people”.

5. Who did Maslow study?

6. Self-Actualized People
-They share certain characteristics:
They are self aware and self accepting
Open and spontaneous
Loving and caring
Not paralyzed by others’ opinions.
They are secure in who they are.

7. Self-Actualized People
Problem centered rather than self-centered.
Focused their energy on a particular task.
Few deep relationships, rather than many superficial ones.

8. Self-Actualization
These are the qualities that make up a mature adult.
These people have found their calling in life.

9. Table Talk
What are the key characteristics of a self-actualized person?
Name a few other celebrities that you believe have reached self-actualization.
Why them?

10. Carl Rogers’s Person-Centered Perspective
People are basically GOOD.
We are like Acorns
-Need Water, Sun and Nutrients to Grow into a big Oak Tree.
We need genuineness, acceptance and empathy for us to mature.

11. Genuineness Being open with your own feelings. Dropping your facade.
Being transparent and self-disclosing.

12. Acceptance Unconditional Positive Regard:
- An attitude of acceptance regardless of circumstances.
- Accepting yourself or others completely.

13. Empathy
Listening, sharing, understanding and mirroring feelings and reflecting their meanings.

14. Self-Concept
All of thoughts and feelings about ourselves trying to answer the question….
…WHO AM I?

15. Self-Concept
Both Rogers and Maslow believed that your self-concept is at the center of your personality.
If our self concept is positive….
- We tend to act and perceive the world positively.
If our self-concept is negative….
- We fall short of our “ideal self” and feel dissatisfied and unhappy

16. Activity
For each of the following slides pick one of the options and say / write down WHY you choose that option.
Example: If slide has a picture of a beach & a mountain vista which one would you rather go to and why.

17. Which do you prefer?
Beach
Mountain vista

18. Do labels really matter?
Yes NO

19. WHO ARE YOU to others?
Real Self
Your Ideal Self

20. HOWS YOUR Self-Esteem?
HIGH
LOW

21. Do you like you….really?
Genuine
No\
Fake

22. Reflect on your answers to the activity