The total personality.

2014 ◽  
pp. 120-149
Author(s):  
James Winfred Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Total Personality

Recreation and the Total Personality.

1947 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-186
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Corey
Keyword(s):  
Total Personality

Book Review: Recreation and the Total Personality

1947 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
Gertrude Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Total Personality

A Factorial Study of Physical Constitution in Women

1950 ◽  
Vol 96 (404) ◽  
pp. 619-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linford Rees
Keyword(s):  
Mental Status ◽  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Anthropometric Indices ◽  
Body Build ◽  
Objective Procedure ◽  
Total Personality ◽  
Physical Constitution

The assessment of body build as an integral part of the total personality is now accepted as an important procedure in the practice of clinical psychiatry. Body build has been found to influence symptomatology, mental status, course and prognosis in neurotic and psychotic disorders (Betz, 1942; Mauz, 1930; Kisselew, 1931; Freudenberg, 1941; Rees, 1945, 1947). Whereas the delineation of physical types has now become an objective procedure by the use of anthropometric indices (Rees, 1949), it has long been recognized that the differentiation of physical types in women is much more difficult. Kretschmer (1921) pointed out that the types of physique described by him were less easily diagnosed in women, and Sheldon (1940) pays comparatively little attention to the variations of female body build.

The Waiter and the Philosopher

Philosophy ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 58 (225) ◽  
pp. 386-388
Author(s):  
James Mark
Keyword(s):  
Bad Faith ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
Total Personality ◽  
Individual Choices ◽  
The Way

Like Professor Manser (January 1983) I felt moved to comment on D. Z. Phillips's article on Sartre (‘Bad Faith and Sartre's Waiter’ (January 1981)); and the editor thoughtfully suggested that we should exchange our comments. We both agree, I think, that Phillips's concern over Sartre's alleged unfairness to waiters has led him to be unfair to Sartre, but whereas Manser is concerned to pursue in general terms the questions of sincerity and commitment I am more concerned to see the example, and the implications that Sartre draws from it, as showing the kind of writer he was and the view of the world that he held. It is this context that seems to me to be lacking in Phillips's article. He thinks that Sartre is unfair to waiters by over-simplifying their attitudes to their jobs, the ways in which they behave when doing them, and the satisfaction that they derive from them. He draws out of these specific comments some more general criticisms of the way in which Sartre over-simplifies the problems of choice: how much of our total personality we express in any particular choice that we make; and the degree of commitment that individual choices involve. All this is very reasonable, but he does not really get to grips with Sartre's concern.

The final common path of the total personality

1944 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Common Path ◽  
Total Personality

Possible Sequelae of Trauma and Somatic Disorder in Early Life

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome L. Weinberger ◽  
Martin Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Early Life History ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Supportive Psychotherapy ◽  
Total Personality ◽  
Physiological Symptoms ◽  
Traumatic Effect

All children experience trauma. The age, state of development and constitutional factors will determine whether some children will have a traumatic effect. Trauma occurring before the age of three, at a time when the ego has not developed its synthetic and integrative functions, may be reproduced in later life as an isolated symptom, by selected sensations involved in a sensory imprint or screen sensation of the trauma as a simple recording. After the age of three, under the influence of a more mature ego, excessive traumatic stimuli will be integrated and elaborated in symptom formations as phobias or other conditions and extended as part of the total personality. Recurrence in later life is triggered by events related not only to the original experience, but also to the content of its elaboration. The earlier in life the trauma occurs, the more likely that somatic imprints of primitive physiological symptoms would result as an archaic, biological defense or screen sensations. Recurrent sensory imprints or screens may appear as organic illness or functional somatic symptoms. Diagnostically, a detailed early life history is necessary to uncover the presence of a sensory screen memory of a trauma and so avoid diagnostic medical search for organic causation. Case material illustrating the two groups are presented. Indications for psychoanalysis and for supportive psychotherapy are discussed from our theoretical framework as well as from the literature.

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