Seymour Epstein

Cognitive-Experiential Theory (eBook, PDF)

An Integrative Theory of Personality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book presents a new theory of personality, referred to as cognitive-experiential theory (CET). Currently there are a variety of personality theories that seem irreconcilable with each other. CET is integrative of all other major personality theories. This integration is accomplished by expanding upon current basic assumptions, including the assumption that all higher-order animals automatically construct an implicit theory of reality that is necessary for adapting to their environments and that is therefore inherently reinforcing. The system that accomplishes this is referred to as the experiential system, as it is an empirical system that adapts by automatically learning from experience. Because it operates without requiring conscious awareness it can be regarded as an adaptive unconscious system, however, this book reveals that the experiential system is not identical with an unconscious adaptive system, and is superior to that construct in several important respects. Humans, of course, also uniquely operate with a conscious, reasoning system, referred to in CET as a rational system. This book demonstrates how these two systems operate in parallel and influence each other in important ways. For example, the influence of the experiential on the rational system can account for why the human species, despite its outstanding intelligence in solving impersonal problems, which are mainly in the domain of the rational system, often think and behave unintelligently and destructively in solving interpersonal problems, which are primarily in the domain of the experiential system. Yet, neither system is generally superior to the other, and the book discusses how each system is superior in uniquely important ways.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199927562
• Artikelnr.: 40761821

Autorenporträt

Seymour Epstein is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, where he has held a position since obtaining his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1953. His major interest has been in developing an integrative theory of personality, which he has set forth in the present book. Over the past several decades he has conducted an active research program on his theory that has received continuous support from the National Institute of Mental Health and extended support from a Research Scientist Award.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* Part I. The Theory
* Chapter 1. The Basic Theory: Two Systems
* Chapter 2. Evidence in Real Life of Two Modes of Information
Processing
* Chapter 3. The Content and Organization of the Experiential System
* with an Emphasis on Basic Needs and Beliefs
* Chapter 4. Motivation Further Considered and Emotions
* Chapter 5. Interactions Between and Within the Two Systems: Conflict,
* Compromises, Synergy, Repression, and Dissociation
* Part 2. Development and Adjustment
* Chapter 6. Development
* Chapter 7. Coping and Defense Mechanisms
* Chapter 8. The Maladaptive Behavior of Everyday Life
* Chapter 9. Neurosis, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychosis, and
Autism
* Chapter 10. Depression
* Part 3. Clinical Applications
* Chapter 11. Psychotherapy 1: Constructive Thinking, Cognitive
Therapy,
* Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy
* Chapter 12. Psychotherapy 2: Psychoanalytic Therapy, Client-centered
* Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Psychosynthesis, Cognitive-
* experiential Therapy, Relapse
* Chapter 13. Psychotherapy 3: Communicating with the Experiential
System
* Communicating with the Experiential System Through the Use
* of Fantasy
* Part 4. Implications