BHS2320

Personality: beyond the persona

(ART)

Maurie Hasen

8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Caulfield + Clayton + Prerequisites: BHS1340 or approved equivalents

Synopsis: Psychoanalytic, phenomenological, dispositional and behavioural approaches to the study of personality with particular reference to Adler, Fromm and Horney; Laing, May, Kelly, Maslow and Rogers; Eysenck, Skinner and Bandura. Social, existential and humanistic approaches. The limitations of personality theories in contrast with more recent systemic approaches including paradigms derived from psychoanalytic, structural and strategic foundations, and the work of Bateson, Ackerman, Bowen, Haley, Minuchin and others.

Assessment: Weekly journal (3000 words): 35% + Essay (2000 words): 30% + Group presentation and write-up (1000 words): 20% + Test: 15%