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Self Development and Psychotherapy in a Period of Rapid Social Change

  • Richard Margolies observes that with the fast-paced expansion of global markets and the shift from electro-mechanical manufacturing to an information-based techno-service economy (Maccoby 1988), the last two decades have brought enor-mous changes that are reflected in society at many levels. Margolies argues that it is important and helpful to understand how social changes at the workplace affect people by enhancing or constraining adult development. Social character research within the last two decades bears testimony to these dramatic shifts. According to Margolies, from surveys of several thousand managers and employees and 300 in-depth sociopsychoanalytic interviews, five social character types emerge (Maccoby 1988): the expert, the helper, the defender, the innovator, and the self-developer. In concurring with Maccoby's analysis, Margolies notes that the main social character shift in our time has been from the expert, adapted to industrial hierarchies and bu-reaucracies, to the self-developer, adapted to the uncertainty and challenges of to-day's economy. While experts value autonomy, mastery, and hard work, and achieve self-esteem based on excellence of their performance, self-developers ap-proach life and work as a continuous process >to learn, grow, and develop them-selves< while adding value to their clients and customers. They maintain their self-esteem and marketability by upgrading their skills. Self-developers are more flexi-ble, work well in teams, and dislike hierarchies. However, they often have difficulty with intimate relationships. Experts are less flexible and more controlling, but they value and seek strong family ties. Most self-developers come from two-career, di-vorced, or mobile families. Their expectations for work mirror the uncertainty of their family life. Experts grew up in an age of greater stability and upward mobility. They are less able to adapt to the constant change and flat hierarchies of the modern workplace. To illustrate the usefulness of understanding social character with pa-tients, Margolies presents a case of a talented and creative self-developer. Accord-ing to Margo-lies, an important therapeutic aspect of the treatment was understand-ing the patient's legitimate need to further his own development that had not been particularly sup-ported by a father who had forgone his own development for the sake of the family. This meant making unconventional choices and resolving his ambivalence toward two women he loved. Margolies believes that had he only fo-cused on the pathology without a clear understanding and support for his patient's real-life choices, the therapy would not have been as effective.

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Verfasserangaben:R. Margolies
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):M. Cortina and M. Maccoby (Eds.), A Prophetic Analyst. Erich Fromm's Contribution to Psychoanalysis, Nothvale and London (Jason Aronson Inc.) 1996, pp. 361-401.
Dokumentart:Artikel / Beiträge
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:1996
Datum der Freischaltung:13.12.2012
Format:PDF-file upon request / PDF-Datei auf Anfrage
ID-Nr.:Margolies_R_1996
Schriften über Erich Fromm (Sekundärliteratur):Articles / Artikel
Bibliothek von Erich Fromm und Erich Fromm-Archiv:Articles / Artikel
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