Theories of personality

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Accusation

Adlerian safeguarding tendency whereby one protects magnified feelings of self-esteem by blaming others for one's own failures is known as accusation.

Active imagination

Technique used by Jung to uncover collective unconscious material is known as active imagination. patients are asked to concentrate on image until a series of fantasies are produced.

Actualizing tendency (Rogers)

Tendency within all people to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials is known as actualization tendency.

Adolescence (Erikson)

An important psycho-social stage when ego identity should be formed. Adolescence is characterized by puberty and the crisis of identity versus identity confusion.

Adulthood (Erikson)

The stage from about age 31 to 60 that is characterized by the psycho-social mode of pro-creativity 

and the crisis of generativity versus stagnation is known as adulthood.

Aesthetic needs (Maslow)

Needs for arts, music, beauty, and the like. Although they may be related to the basic conative needs, aesthetic needs are the separate dimensions.

Agape

Altruistic love is known as agape.

Aggression (Adler)

Safeguarding tendencies that may include depreciation or accusation of others as well as self-accusation, all designed to protect exaggerated feelings of personal superiority by striking out against other people is known as aggression.

Aggression (Freud)

One of two primary instincts or drives that motivate people. Aggression is outward manifestation of the death instincts.

Anal Character

Freudian term for a person characterized by a compulsive neatness, stubbornness, and miserliness is known as anal character.

Anal Phase (Freud)

Sometimes called the anal-sadistic phase, this second stage of the infantile period is characterized by a child's attempts to gain pleasure from the excretion function and by such related behaviours as destroying of loosing objects, stubbornness, neatness, and miserliness. correspond roughly to the second year of life is known as anal phase.

Anal triad (Freud)

The three traits of compulsive neatness, stubbornness, and miserliness that characterized the anal character is known as anal triad.

Anal-urethral-muscular

Erikson's term for the young child's psychosexual mode of adapting is known as anal-urethral-muscular.

Analytical psychology

Theory of personality and approach to psychotherapy found by Carl Young is known as analytical psychology.

Anima

Jungian archetype that represent the feminine component in the personality of males and originates from men's inherited experiences with women is known as anima.

Animus

Jungian's archetype that represents the masculine component in the personality of females and originates from women's inherited experiences with men is known as animus.

Anxiety

A felt, effective, unpleasant state accompanied by the physical sensation of uneasiness is known as anxiety.

Anxiety (Kelly)

The recognition that the events with which one is confronted lie outside the range of convenience of one's construct system is known as anxiety.

Anxiety (May)

The experience of the threat of imminent nonbeing is known as anxiety.

Anxiety (Rogers)

Feelings of uneasiness or tension with an unknown cause is known as anxiety.

Anxiety (Sullivan)

Any tension that interferes with satisfaction of needs is known as anxiety.

Apathy (Sullivan)

Dynamism that reduces tensions of needs through the adoption of an indifferent attitude is known as apathy.

Archetypes

Jung's concept that refers to the contents of the collective unconscious. Archetypes, are called primordial images or collective symbols, represent psychic patterns of inherited behaviour and are thus distinguished from instincts, which are physical impulses toward action are called archetypes. Typical archetypes are the anima, animus, shadow.

Attitude (Jung)

A predisposition to act or react in the characteristic manner, that is, in either an introverted or an extroverted direction is known as attitude.

Authoritarianism (Fromm)

The tendency to give up one's independence and to unite with another person or persons in order to gain strength is known as authoritarianism. Takes the form of masochism or sadism.

Autistic language (Sullivan)

Private or parataxic language that makes little or no sense to other people is known as autistic language.