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Needs of the Self-Confident Type [07.22.09]
Needs to believe that they are unique and special and that there is a reason for their being on this planet.
Needs of the Devoted Type [07.21.09]
Needs attachments to center them in the universe and make them feel complete.
Needs of the Self-Sacrificing Type [07.20.09]
Needs to be helpful to others.
Needs of the Serious Type [07.17.09]
Needs to see current circumstances, themselves, and the future as worse than they are.
Needs of the Mercurial Type [07.16.09]
Needs to be passionately focused and attached in all their relationships.
Needs of the Leisurely Type [07.15.09]
Needs to protect their comfort, their free time, and their individual pursuit of happiness.
Needs of the Solitary Type [07.14.09]
Needs to avoid companionship and be alone; needs solitude.
Needs of the Idiosyncratic Type [07.14.09]
Needs to avoid accepting the customary explanations of what's going on in this world.
Needs of the Aggressive Type [07.13.09]
Needs to dominate others, to be in charge.
Needs of the Dramatic Type [07.12.09]
Needs to be the center of attention.
Needs of the Vigilant Type [07.10.09]
Needs to avoid being subordinated.
Needs of the Exuberant Type [07.09.09]
Needs extreme and intense emotional experiences.
Needs of the Inventive Type [07.09.09]
Needs social recognition, status, and prestige; needs to avoid obscurity, low status, and lack of prestige.
Needs of the Sensitive Type [07.08.09]
These needs are irrational needs. They are irrational because they require things not in our power and involve false judgment of what is good or evil.
Needs of the Conscientious Type [07.07.09]
They correspond to Karen Horney's neuroitic needs, which are better called irrational needs.
Adventurous Needs [06.25.09]
In Stoic philosophical and psychological theory these needs are vices.
Toward the Core Vices of the Types [06.15.09]
The cause of our problems and troubles, and the impediment to our happiness, is our evil, or vicious, disposition of character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Fatal Submission to the Sanctions of Social Prestige' [06.08.09]
F. Scott Fitzgerald highly valued social recognition, status, and prestige.
Sensitivity to Recognition [05.28.09]
Recognition is to be preferred, but from a Stoic standpoint the desire for recognition and the desire that we continue to receive recognition are evil.
Origin of the Desire for Social Recognition [05.13.09]
"You could ... say that the need for social recognition is the enlargement of an original wish to be admired and appreciated by one person" - Theodor Reik.
Common False Values [03.18.09]
This is a list of common value beliefs. These beliefs give primary value to external things, things not 'in our power'. Therefore, they are false judgments of what is good and bad.
What Forlornness Is, and What Kind of Person a Forlorn Man Is [01.28.09]
Forlorn: deprived of the aid and protection of others, especially of friends, acquaintances, kindred.
Values of the Exuberant Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Exuberant type.
Values of the Mercurial Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Mercurial type.
Values of the Adventurous Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Adventurous type.
Values of the Self-Confident Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Self-Confident type.
Values of the Self-Sacrificing Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Self-Sacrificing type.
Values of the Serious Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Serious type.
Values of the Leisurely Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Leisurely type.
Values of the Solitary Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Solitary type.
Values of the Inventive Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Inventive type.
Values of the Idiosyncratic Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Idiosyncratic type.
Values of the Aggressive Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Aggressive type.
Values of the Dramatic Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Dramatic type.
Values of the Vigilant Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Vigilant type.
Values of the Sensitive Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Sensitive type.
Values of the Conscientious Type [09.16.08]
The core value beliefs of the Conscientious type.
Values of the Devoted Type [09.15.08]
People value as good, things which they believe will benefit them; and value as bad, things which they believe will harm them.
What Makes Perfectionism Pathological? [07.21.08]
Stoics hold that false value-judgments are the source of pathology.
Obsessive-Compulsive Neurotic Style in Outline Form [05.24.08]
Based on the 8 features of Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder and on John M. Oldham's and Lois B. Morris' "normalizing" of them.
Personality Style [04.27.08]
The concept of personality style is broader than and includes the concepts of " personality traits", "personality type", and "temperament".
An Augustinian Enneagram (working paper) [04.07.08]
This Augustinian Enneagram is based on the Niebuhrian-Augustinian personality theory that Terry D. Cooper has outlined in Sin, Pride & Self-Acceptance.
Barack Obama's Enneagram Type: The Peacemaker (9w1) [02.16.08]
Nines have a compulsive need to avoid tension and have peace. As a result, they unconsciously see themselves as consummate peacemakers.
The Personality Theory: An Outline Account [01.24.08]
An outline account of the personality theory being contemplated.
"Pride" in Dostoevsky's Fiction [12.14.07]
"Dostoyevsky was firmly convinced that the true sickness of man is rooted in his enormous pride. All of his great late novels center on the problem of pride and its destructive effects" - Predrag Cicovacki.
Jimmy Wales and the Underground Man [12.05.07]
"It's very dangerous for us to have a small number of companies secretly controlling the flow of traffic and flow of information" - Jimmy Wales.
Bernard J. Paris: The Withdrawn Man: Notes from Underground [11.28.07]
I really like this Bernard J. Paris essay on Dostoevsky's Underground Man. He uses Horneyan theory in his literary criticism and argues that, although the Underground Man also expresses aggressive and compliant trends, he is predominantly a withdrawn, or detached, type.
Needs as Personality: Henry Murray [09.26.07]
"He believed that a need is a potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances� It is a noun which stands for the fact that a certain trend is apt to recur." - James Neill
Personality: Theory & Perspectives [09.21.07]
Links to an undergraduate psychology course about individual differences.
Self-idealization and Annie Reich's Compensatory Narcissist [05.21.07]
Karen Horney's biographer, Jack Rubins, saw the influence of Horney's concepts on psychoanalytic theories of narcissism.
Solitary Style According to Oldham and Morris [04.28.07]
An outline of Oldham's Solitary style.
Effect of Ellis' Work on Clinical Research and Training [04.21.07]
"Ellis's model is a general model that seems to reduce all of psychopathology to a few cognitive distortions and shoulds."
Similarities in REBT and Judeo-Christian Philosophies of Acceptance [04.14.07]
Albert Ellis found similarities in REBT and Judeo-Christian philosophies in their views on "self-acceptance," "other-acceptance," and "life-acceptance."
Core Beliefs: Irrational Beliefs that Influence and Help Maintain Emotional Disturbance [04.12.07]
A representation of Albert Ellis' list of "some of the major illogical, irrational, and self-defeating ideas that are presently ubiquitous in Western civilization and that would seem inevitably to lead to widespread neurosis" (Ellis, 1994, pp. 106-107).
Three Insights Gained from Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy [04.09.07]
The most fundamental way in which individuals perpetuate their psychological disturbances is by failing to recognize what Ellis calls the 'three insights of REBT' (see Donald Robertson).
Core Beliefs in Personality Disorder [04.07.07]
"The therapist is most interested in finding core beliefs and deep rooted philosophical evalutions. These are usually the causes of automatic negative inferences and higher level evaluative thoughts" (Wikipedia).
"Shoulds" and "Claims" in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy [04.05.07]
"According to Ellis, emotional and behavioral difficulties occur when humans take simple preferences (desire for love, approval, success) and turn them into dire needs" - Chris Morley.
The False Self [02.26.07]
Thomas Merton's "false self" is analogous to Karen Horney's idealized self.
Neurotic Solutions [02.02.07]
"Even when we deeply value ourselves, the anxiety built into finitude will tempt us to find our source of security in some strategy rather than a trust in God" (Cooper, pg. 163).
Man as Sinner [01.23.07]
"When anxiety has conceived it brings forth both pride and sensuality." - Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion as a Sense of the Absolute [01.20.07]
"The religious sense of the absolute qualifies the will-to-live and the will-to-power by bringing them under subjection to an absolute will, and by imparting transcendent value to other human beings, whose life and needs thus achieve a higher claim upon the self." - Reinhold Niebuhr
Neurotic Solution: Obsessive-Compulsive Type [12.15.06]
In the neurotic search for glory the neurotic "solution" is idealized (Horney, 1950, pg. 22).
The Historical Jesus of E. P. Sanders [11.18.06]
"He thought that the wicked who accepted his message would share in the kingdom even though they did not do the things customary in Judaism for the atonement of sin."
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