From 6b630bbde611652a95c3f7778c691742b65b2745 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:33:15 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update blog --- .../posts/humanistic-psychology/index.md | 85 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/content/posts/humanistic-psychology/index.md b/src/content/posts/humanistic-psychology/index.md index 2233ab808..e0de29e95 100644 --- a/src/content/posts/humanistic-psychology/index.md +++ b/src/content/posts/humanistic-psychology/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ --- title: Humanistic Psychology published: 2024-11-28 +updated: 2024-12-13 description: In order for individuals to thrive and excel, a health-fostering culture must be created. image: cover.png tags: [Psychology] @@ -60,8 +61,8 @@ The first four levels are known as deficit needs or D-needs. This means that if four needs, there will be a need to get it. Getting them brings a feeling of contentment. These needs alone are not motivating. -Maslow wrote that there are certain conditions that must be fulfilled in order for the basic needs to be satisfied. For -example, freedom of speech, freedom to express oneself, and freedom to seek new information +Maslow wrote that [there are certain conditions that must be fulfilled in order for the basic needs to be satisfied. For +example, freedom of speech, freedom to express oneself, and freedom to seek new information](#preconditions-for-satisfying-basic-needs) (_A Theory of Human Motivation_) are a few of the prerequisites. Any blockages of these freedoms could prevent the satisfaction of the basic needs. @@ -182,8 +183,84 @@ be more autonomous and creative work outcome that targets more on the _problems_ 15. Reality shapes the dynamics between Freudian Id and Ego 16. Focusing on healthy person instead of psychotherapists's neurotic sufferers. -### Chapter 4 - Motivation Theory +### Chapter 4 - Basic Needs: Just the Basic + +What we are talking about here is also called _Gratification Theory_ - gratifying a lower need bumps a person to the +next level of need. The validity of this theory is justified given the following premises being true: + +1. Frustration Theory +2. Learning Theory +3. Theory of Neurosis +4. Theory of Psychological Health +5. Theory of values +6. Theory of discipline, will, responsibility, etc + +In addition, it must be kept in mind that there are determinants other than the Basic Need gratifications. #### Basic Needs -- Psychological Needs: indicated by specific appetites +:::tip[UNCONSCIOUS CHARACTER OF NEEDS] + +The following needs tend to be more unconscious than conscious + +::: + +1. __Physiological Needs__ + + - Nutritions for survival + - Indicated by specific appetites + - Those that are deprived of a person are regarded as being more important than something else higher + +2. __Safety Needs__ + + - Indication: preference for undisrupted routine or rhythm. e.g. justice, consistency, ordered world + - Permissiveness within limits, rather than unrestricted permissiveness is preferred as well as needed by children. + Perhaps one could express this more accurately by saying that the child needs an organized and structured world + rather than an unorganized or unstructured one + - Those with excessive expression of closeness with their parents might suggest they are seeing themselves facing a + world of much greater danger, because infant tend to cling to parents at times of feeling unsafe + - To identify the degree of safety needs of a person requires us to look at that person from an economic and social + context + - Psychologically, these behaviors also shows people's attempts to seek safety + + - people's preference for familiar/known rather than unfamiliar/unknown things + - tendency to have some religion or world philosophy + - too freaking-out about some world events that seems to be a catastrophe to them; they seem to be looking for a + Fuehrer + + - The neurotic individual may be described with great usefulness as a grown-up person who retains his childhood + attitudes toward the world. That is to say, a neurotic adult may be said to behave as if he were actually afraid of + a spanking, or of his mother's disapproval, or of being abandoned by his parents, or having his food taken away from + him. It is as if his childish attitudes of fear and threat reaction to a dangerous world had gone underground, and + untouched by the growing up and learning processes, were now ready to be called out by any stimulus that would make + a child feel endangered and threatened. Horney[^1] especially has written well about "basic anxiety" + +3. __Sense of Belong and Love__ + + - Lots of activities within our societies are driven by the hunger for belongness. + - Love is not sex. Love is about giving and receiving + +4. __Esteem Needs__ (strength & reputation) +5. __Self-Actualization__ (He or she must be true to their own nature) + + - The desire to become more and more what one idiosyncratically is, to become everything that one is capable of + becoming + - Individual differences are greatest at this level + +It should be noted that such order of hierarchy is not rigidly fixed for everyone. The arrangement of basic needs +differs according to different people's priority or potency. For example, some seek self-esteem (_Esteem Needs_) before +_Sense of Belong and Love_; some simply lost the desire for love. In addition, everyone has all 5 needs partially filled +and unfilled while climbing up the pyramid and people tend to develop all 5 levels at the same time with different +speed. With that said then, most human behaviors are _multimotivated_ + +The needs above are all driven motivations. Not all behaviors, however, are motivation-driven. Motivation-driven +behaviors are what we called _expressive behaviors_. On the other hand, _coping behaviors_ is purposive goal seeking. + +A _satisfied_ need does not motivate us anymore. If that's the case, the author postulates further that what really +motivates us is "__the need to develop and actualize our fullest potentialities and capacities__." + +### Chapter 5 - Consequences of Basic Needs + + + +[^1]: Horney, K, _The Neurotic Personality of Our Time_, New York Norton, 1937