psychological perspectives

• Freud's Three Levels of Mind
• Unknown: '“The more you hate, the more you love”'
• Two self sub-systems include all aspects of one’s being and experiences perceived in awareness by the individual
• A wide gap between the ideal self and self-concept indicates incongruence and an unhealthy personality
• Actualizing Tendency

  • The need to satisfy one’s hunger drive
  • The need to express deep emotions when they are felt
  • The need to accept one’s self
• People fight against new ideas, distort experiences that do not fit, find change painful, and growth frightening
• We have to learn to separate behaviors from the totality of one’s being
• Bro!: 'No matter who you are, you are forever my brother'
• Social comparison can lead to feelings of threat when someone outperforms us, especially if that person is close to us
• In an attempt to increase or maintain self-esteem, some people may become narcissistic, characterized by overly high self-esteem, self-admiration, and self-centeredness
• We need to stop comparing ourselves with other people, especially those we see on social media
• Sometimes behaving badly doesn't mean that we are automatically or entirely a bad person
• We have the ability to improve ourselves, contribute to the future we hope to have, regardless of past events or current situations
• We are capable of helping ourselves and attaining the ideal self we intend to become, regardless of how we feel
• Becoming a person

  An individual must make contact
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder characteristics
• Ways in which our social relationship affects our self-esteem

  • Social comparison: Downward social comparison
  • Upward social comparison