Biospheric Model Of Personality on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
The biospheric model of personality is a contribution to the psychology of personality proposed by
The following outlines the author's holistic view of the biosphere:
*The Subject pole:
''Elements'': attitude, drive, craving;
''Organized into'': axioms of behavior, systems of axioms, the personal system principle.
*The Object pole:
''Elements'': relevance, valence, demand quality;
''Organized into'': axiomatic values, systems of values, the environment's system.
Angyal describes three personality dimensions:
*vertical dimension, with surface behavior and deep attitudes that guide that behavior;
*progressive dimension, which is the series of behaviors that lead to attaining a goal;
*transverse dimension, which is the simultaneous coordination of elementary behaviors into complex acts.
Biosphere dynamics is generated by the tension between the poles of each dimension. There are two fundamental tendencies of the person in relationship with her environment:
*autonomy, or domination of the environment by the person;
*homonymy, or the adjustment of the person to the environment.
Andras Angyal
Andras Angyal ( hu, Angyal András; 1902–1960) was an American psychiatrist, known for a holistic model for a theory of personality.
Work
His 1939 work on "The Structure of Wholes" was seen as a precedent to systems theory in books in the 1960s� ...
in 1941. According to this model, the biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος ''bíos'' "life" and σφαῖρα ''sphaira'' "sphere"), also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος ''oîkos'' "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. It can also be ...
is the system of the individual and her environment, consisting of Subject subsystem (the individual) and Object subsystem (the environment).Angyal, Andras (1941) ''Foundations for a science of personality'', The Commonwealth Fund.
Description
The following outlines the author's holistic view of the biosphere:
*The Subject pole:
''Elements'': attitude, drive, craving;
''Organized into'': axioms of behavior, systems of axioms, the personal system principle.
*The Object pole:
''Elements'': relevance, valence, demand quality;
''Organized into'': axiomatic values, systems of values, the environment's system.
Angyal describes three personality dimensions:
*vertical dimension, with surface behavior and deep attitudes that guide that behavior;
*progressive dimension, which is the series of behaviors that lead to attaining a goal;
*transverse dimension, which is the simultaneous coordination of elementary behaviors into complex acts.
Biosphere dynamics is generated by the tension between the poles of each dimension. There are two fundamental tendencies of the person in relationship with her environment:
*autonomy, or domination of the environment by the person;
*homonymy, or the adjustment of the person to the environment.
Psychopathology
According to Angyal's model, psychopathology is caused by the segregation of the two poles of one or more personality dimensions. This segregation can be: *vertical, between attitudes and behavior, leading to deceptive behavior; *progressive, between goals and means to attain them, leading to frustration; *transverse, leading to behavior dissociation and incoherence (encountered in psychosis).See also
* Cognitive-affective personality system * Hypostatic model of personality *Personality systematics
Personality systematics is a contribution to the psychology of personality and to psychotherapy summarized by Jeffrey J. Magnavita in 2006 and 2009.Magnavita, Jeffrey J. (2009) Psychodynamic Family Psychotherapy: Toward Unified Relational Systemat ...
*Systems psychology
Systems psychology is a branch of both theoretical psychology and applied psychology that studies human behaviour and experience as complex systems. It is inspired by systems theory and systems thinking, and based on the theoretical work of ...
*Organismic theory
Organismic theories in psychology are a family of holistic psychological theories which tend to stress the organization, unity, and integration of human beings expressed through each individual's inherent growth or developmental tendency. The id ...
References
{{psychology Personality theories