Menurut George Kelly (2005) : kepribadian sebagai cara yang unik dari individu dalam mengartikan pengalaman-pengalaman hidupnya. Gordon Allport (2005): kepribadian merupakan suatu organisasi dinamis dari sitem psikofisik individu yang menentukan tingkah laku dan pemikiran individu secara khas. Browner (2005) kepribadian adalah corak tingkah laku sosial, corak ketakutan, dorongan dan keinginan, gerak-gerik, opini dan sikap. Sehari-hari, kepribadian menunjuk pada bagaimana indivdiu t...

Gaya kepribadian seseorang dapat dibagi menjadi 12 tipe (Gregory; 2005), yaitu: Kepribadian yang mudah menyesuaikan diri Seseorang dengan gaya ini mudah meyesuiakan diri, karena dia memandang hidup ini sebagi perayaan dan setiap harinya sebagai pesta yang berpindah. Orang ini komunikatif, bertanggung jawab, ramah, santun dan memprhatikan perasan orang lain, jarang agresif, kompetitif dan destruktif. Kepribadian yang Berambisi Orang ini memang penuh ambisi terhadap semua hal, ...

Naratif Therapy Oleh, Khairul Bariyyah*) Naratif Therapy adalah bentuk psikoterapi yang menggunakan narasi . Pada awalnya dikembangkan selama tahun 1970an dan 1980an, oleh bangsa Australian Michael White dan temannya, David Epston , dari New Zealand. Pendekatan mereka menjadi terkenal di Amerika Utara setelah terbitnya buku mereka, Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends pada tahun 1990 , diikuti dengan berbagai buku dan artikel tentang kasus sebelumnya dari anorexia nervosa , ADHD , s...

Feminis Therapy Oleh, KHAIRUL BARIYYAH Sejarah Perkembangan Teori dan praktik terapi feminis berawal dari gerakan feminisme pada tahun 1960-an, di mana para wanita membentuk sebuah forum untuk secara aktif mengutarakan ketidakpuasan mereka terhadap sistem sosial patriarkal yang memposisikan mereka sebagai anggota masyarakat kelas dua Tahun 1970 merupakan awal terbentuknya konseling feminis sebagai salah satu pendekatan dalam psikoterapi. Konseling dan psikoterapi feminis tidak d...

By Esther Giller President, Sidran Institute This article originated as a workshop presentation at the Annual Conference of the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration, "Passages to Prevention: Prevention across Life's Spectrum," May 1999. Copyright 1999 We all use the word "trauma" in every day language to mean a highly stressful event. But the key to understanding traumatic events is that it refers to extreme stress that overwhelms a person's ability to cope. There are no clear divisio...

JEAN PIAGET 1896 - 1980 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -- an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and took an early interest in natur...

CARL ROGERS 1902 - 1987 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Carl Rogers was born January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the fourth of six children. His father was a successful civil engineer and his mother was a housewife and devout Christian. His education started in the second grade, because he could already read before kindergarten. When Carl was 12, his family moved to a farm about 30 miles west of Chicago, and it was here that he was to spend his adolescen...

ABRAHAM MASLOW 1908-1970 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Abraham Harold Maslow was born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first of seven children born to his parents, who themselves were uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents, hoping for the best for their children in the new world, pushed him hard for academic success. Not surprisingly, he became very lonely as a boy, and found his refuge in books. To satisfy his parents, he first studied law at the Cit...

GORDON ALLPORT 1897 - 1967 Dr. C. George Boeree Gordon Allport was born in Montezuma, Indiana, in 1897, the youngest of four brothers. A shy and studious boy, he was teased quite a bit and lived a fairly isolated childhood. His father was a country doctor, which meant that Gordon grew up with his father’s patients and nurses and all the paraphernalia of a miniature hospital. Everyone worked hard. His early life was otherwise fairly pleasant and uneventful.  One of Allport’s s...

ALBERT BANDURA 1925 - present Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Albert Bandura was born December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare in northern Alberta, Canada. He was educated in a small elementary school and high school in one, with minimal resources, yet a remarkable success rate. After high school, he worked for one summer filling holes on the Alaska Highway in the Yukon. He received his bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1949. He went on to t...

B. F. SKINNER 1904 - 1990 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Burrhus Frederic Skinner was born March 20, 1904, in the small Pennsylvania town of Susquehanna. His father was a lawyer, and his mother a strong and intelligent housewife. His upbringing was old-fashioned and hard-working. Burrhus was an active, out-going boy who loved the outdoors and building things, and actually enjoyed school. His life was not without its tragedies, however. In particular, his brother died at the age of 16 ...

Albert Ellis 1913 - 2007 Since I began putting these personality theories on the internet, I have received requests to add this or that theorist, sometimes with the added notion that I must be a total dunderhead to have left out such a genius! I added Allport, for example, on the basis of one such request. But most I did not add, because, however much the writer loves the genius, the genius is rarely up to the standards set by theorists such as Rogers or Horney, much less Jung or Binswang...

KAREN HORNEY 1885 - 1952 Dr. C. George Boeree Biography Karen Horney was born September 16, 1885, to Clotilde and Berndt Wackels Danielson. Her father was a ship's captain, a religious man, and an authoritarian. His children called him "the Bible thrower," because, according to Horney, he did! Her mother, who was known as Sonni, was a very different person -- Berndt's second wife, 19 years his junior, and considerably more urbane. Karen also had an older brother, also named Berndt, for whom ...

ALFRED ADLER 1870 - 1937 Dr. C. George Boeree I would like to introduce Alfred Adler by talking about someone Adler never knew: Theodore Roosevelt. Born to Martha and Theodore Senior in Manhattan on October 27, 1858, he was said to be a particularly beautiful baby who needed no help entering his new world. His parents were strong, intelligent, handsome, and quite well-to-do. It should have been an idyllic childhoodBut "Teedie," as he was called, was not as healthy as he first appeared. He h...

OTTO RANK 1884 - 1939 Dr. C. George Boeree A fascination with mythology, literature, art, and religion was hardly restricted to Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. In fact, it comes up again and again among personality psychologists. It is especially prominent in Otto Rank. The hero One of his earliest works was The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, in which he examines such birth myths as those of the Babylonian kings Gilgamesh and Sargon, the Hindu hero Karna, The Persian king Cyrus, The Greek he...