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• Western Self - focus on oneself and personal needs and tend to be more egoistic or individualist.
• Eastern Self - focus on others and their feelings and tend to be more collectivist.
• Physical Self - refers to the body which we interface with our environment and fellow being.
• William James - considered body as initial source of sensation
• Sigmund Freud - construction of self and personality makes the physical body the core of the human experience.
• Wilhelm Reich - He is the founder of Somatic Psychology
• Wilhelm Reich - He argued that mind and body are one.
• Muscular Armor - It protects yourself against the pain of not releasing the energy you need to release.
• Erik Erikson - the role of bodily organs is especially important in early developmental stages of a person's life.
• Carl Jung - argued that the physical body and the external world can be known only as psychological experiences.
• Self Esteem - what physical attributes a person has.
• Inflated Self Esteem - type of Self esteem that people hold high regards of themselves
• High Self Esteem - a positive self-esteem which makes a person satisfied of himself.
• Low Self Esteem - This kind of person do not value and trust themselves.