Normal Personality Reiss Steven
Normal Personality Reiss Steven Many Psychologists regard personality and mental illness as closely related. They believe that dark, unconscious mental forces that originated in childhood cause…
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Normal Personality Reiss Steven
Many Psychologists regard personality and mental illness as closely related. They believe that dark, unconscious mental forces that originated in childhood cause personality traits, personal troubles, and mental illnesses. The shadow of Freudian analysis looms over modern psychopathology, driving many psychologists to try to understand their clients' personal troubles and personalities using constructs developed to study mental illness.
In The Normal Personality, Reiss argues that human beings are naturally intolerant of people who express values significantly different from their own. Steven Reiss thinks problems are a normal part of life. Because of this intolerance, psychologists and psychiatrists sometimes confuse individuality with abnormality and thus over-diagnose disorders.
Reiss shows how normal motives, not anxiety or traumatic childhood experiences, underlie many personality