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Psych 230h - Personality and its Transformations - Dr Jordan Peterson
View this sphere as a Journey
2017 Personality 01: Introduction - YouTube with #Playlist
Joseph Rychlak
The readings
Joseph F. Rychlak - Wikipedia
Can someone please upload a pdf version Dr Peterson's "Personality Course" text for people living in another continent? : JordanPeterson
Old text, but is accurate and sufficiently sophisticated
Definition of personality
What constitutes personality and what constitutes something else?
Human personality is essentially unfathomable.
Human beings are complicated and nested in systems that are complicated.
Humans are the most complicated thing we know of by a high margin.
Number of theorists... commonalities but also marked differences.
Personality is a #Hybrid #discipline : part #science and part #engineering .
Video 3:09
Engineers try to make something happen.
Not easy to define mental health from a scientific perspective ... includes norms and ideals.
#Ideals belong to the domain of #moral #judgements .
Approach the course as if you are an engineer of the human spirit ... yours and others.
We experience falling short of our own ideals or ideals of the communities we are a part of.
Video 4:40
We're engaging in the #co-creation of our own and other's #personalities .
2nd half of the class focuses of brain psysiology.
Personality also has #structural elements.
Personality #and its #transformations ... because personalities are able to change.
#Meta-narrative that helps to #integrate and combine the #thinking of the disapparate set of thinkers and approaches to the subject.
What constitutes #knowledge is the generation of a cognitive structure that enables you to conduct yourself more appropriately in life. (Eg. vs. memorisation.)
#Big-five model is a statistical model.
#Factor analysis on a list of adjectives
Video : Big 5 model : 11:35
"Big five" (dimensions of personality)
Happiness - Extroversion
#Agreeableness - women score more highly than men across cultures
Neuroticism - Negative emotions
Conscientiousness
Openness - Creativity - Associated with higher IQ
Orderliness
Political conservativeness
Industriousness
Good at planning the use of their time
Studying and then sleeping
Practicing recall
Capacity of the power of concentration is limited more than people expect - eg. 3-5 hours per day.
Recall memory vs. Recognition memory
More likely to be Liberal
Creative achievement questionaire
Pareto distribution
Pareto distribution - Wikipedia
Different personalities can all survive as long as you are capable of finding the places where your proclivities and dispositions are a match for the requirements of the environment.
Plumber Lawyer Engineer ... etc.
Video - 26:07
Other elements of personality
Not obvious that your personality is #inside-you
Nesting in a complex set of systems
Many people have a first depressive episode after something terrible happens to them.
The fundamental problem with the client may not be the client ... eg. it could be the family.
Video - 31:29
Dragon myth
Jonah emerging from the Whale
Hero - Hobbit, StGeorge and the Dragon,
You learn through #voluntary contact with that which disgusts or frightens you. Hallmark of psycho-analytic theory.
Yung
Dirty little secrets
Piaget. You always learn when you're wrong.
Psychoanalytic process is clear and careful encounter with those elements of the self which have become alienated.
When you act to get what you want and you don't get what you want, it indicates that you are mis-construing the world at an indeterminate level.
Eg. when you make a social mistake.
We don't want to make the same mistakes over and over again.
Find out what people are afraid of or avoiding, in their past or in their future, break it down in manageable pieces and help them get better at each of the pieces.
Journey into the belly of the beast. Journey into the under-world. Basic motif of clinical practice.
Video - 37:52
Why the plethora of tools?
Trying to build better people.
A series of sophisticated conceptual tools that help you understand yourself and others better.
Read as if it matters.
High in openess people do well with Yungian approach. People low in openess and more practical do better with behaviourist approach.
The web site
The lectures
The readings
Exams, Essays, Assignments
The structure of the course
Practicalities
Video - 41:14
Two things you need to know: What the world is #made-of (science) , and How to #act . ie. What is matter and what matters.
Video - 43:07
Meta-narrative to link everything together. Conceptual framework.
How does the world look if you think about it as a place to act? ... Not as a place of value-free objects.
Schema of Morality is the structure that allows us to see how the various aspects of the course fit together.
Things present themselves to you as having different value.
Heroic and shamanic initiations.
Have a particular kind of structure.
Link between these rituals and psychoanalysts discovery.
Jean Piaget.
Constructivism.
#Depth #psychologists
Jung
Freud
Lion King
Life has a plot !
Rogers
Humanism
Body-centred
Honest communication between people can produce personality transformations
Problem solving conversation
Predicated on the assumption that a person has the capacity to improve their life if they choose to.
A few other things.
HEXACO model of personality structure - Wikipedia