Carl Goldberg asks how malevolent transformation of personality takes place. In-spired by Fromm's work on the origin of destructiveness, Goldberg builds on Fromm's observation that an evil character tends to develop gradually by a succes-sion of innumerable acts of inhumanity that are often rationalized and dismissed. Goldberg has found that the road that leads to sadism and cruelty is often paved by a history of shame and humiliation. Goldberg proposes stages of the sequential transformations of shame, humiliation, and rage that eventually lead to malevo-lence. He illustrates the theory with a very interesting case study. Goldberg's stages provide the basis for rich clinical exploration that could lead to a research agenda into the various possible pathways for the development of the malevolent personal-ity.
Interviews mit 28 bedeutenden Vertretern der modernen Psychologie werden wiedergegeben. Die Wissenschaftler aus den verschiedensten Forschungsrichtungen beschreiben ihre Arbeitsweise und erklären ihre Theorien und nehmen darüber hinaus zu allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Fragen Stellung. – Aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis: (A) >Ethologie – Entwicklung – Intelligenz<. (1) Konrad Lorenz. (2) Nikolaas Tinbergen. (3) Harry F. Harlow. (4) Jean Piaget. (5) Arthur Jensen. – (B) >Lernen – Denken – Bewusstseinsänderung<. (6) Ernest Hilgard. (7) B. F. Skinner. (8) Donald Norman. (9) J. B. Rhine. (10) Joe Kamiya. – (C) >Physiologische Psychologie – Motivation – Emotion<. (11) David Krech. (12) David McClelland. (13) Stanley Schachter. (14) Neal Miller. (15) James McConnell. – (D) >Verhaltensmässige, soziale und existentialistische Aspekte der Persönlichkeit<. (16) Gordon Allport. (17) Carl Rogers. (18) R. D. Laing. (19) Albert Bandura. (20) H. J. Eysenck. – (E) >Persönlichkeit: Analytische Ansätze<. (21) Ernest Jones. (22) C. G. Jung. (23) Erik Erikson. (24) Erich FROMM. – (F) >Sozialverhalten<. (25) Leon Festinger. (26) Milton Rokeach. (27) Stanley Milgram. (28) Philip Zimbardo.
The Right to Innocence. Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse. New York (Ivy Books) 1989.
(1989)
To provide a better understanding of the diverse interpretations of human behavior and the dynamic forces within personality, this work explores the major theories of personality. It covers the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler; of Pavlov, Hull, Skinner, Dollard and Miller, and Cattell; of Horney, Sullivan, FROMM, and Erickson; of Lewin and Allport, of Husserl, Combs and Snygg, Rogers, Maslow, Goldstein, and Frankl. Each chapter contains a study guide to review the salient points of the personality theory discussed and suggestions to apply these concepts to professional counseling practice. Lending a degree of concreteness to the abstract ideas are explanatory drawings used throughout the text--a feature particularly benefiting visually-oriented readers. – Index: Preface – A dynamic view of personality theories – Psychoanalytic theory: Sigmund Freud – Analytic theory: Carl Gustav Jung – Individual psychology: Alfred Adler – Interpersonal theories: Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan – Psychosocial theories: Erich FROMM, Erik Erikson – Learning theory of Dollard and Miller – Trait and factor theory: Raymond B. Cattell – Field theory: Kurt Lewin – Systematic eclecticism: Gordon W. Allport – Phenomenology and existentialism – Self-theory: Carl R. Rogers – Holistic theory: Kurt Goldstein, Abraham H. Maslow – Logotherapy: Viktor E. Frankl – Personality theories in perspective. (From the cover)