Henry Murray's Personology
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This document discusses Henry Murray's childhood and contributions to personality theory. It notes that Murray experienced maternal rejection as an infant and developed a lifelong depression. He also faced physical disabilities as a child but compensated through boxing. Murray later questioned Freud's Oedipus complex because it did not fit his own experience. The document outlines Murray's Personology theory, which divided personality into Id, Ego, and Superego structures differently than Freud. It also lists some of Murray's principles of personality and influential needs model.
Henry Murray's Personology
- 2. Knowledge = to recall Murrays line of thinking; Skills = to compare the disparities between Murray and Freuds Divisions of Personality; Attitude = to support Murrays Personology as a contribution to ones reservoir of knowledge
- 5. 1938-1988
- 6. Childhood Depression and Compensation 1. Murrays childhood contained maternal rejection, 2. Elements of Adlerian compensation for a physical defect, 3. The marrow-of-his-being memory
- 7. Maternal Rejection? How was that? =Weaned when he was still 2-month old
- 8. He insisted that his mothers actions led to his lifelong depression, a condition that formed the core of his personality. Murray referred to his depression as a source of misery and melancholy (Murray, 1967). This lack of a childhood attachment to his mother later led Murray to question Freuds Oedipus complex because it did not coincide to his own experience.
- 9. Keywords : misery = a feeling of great distress or discomfort of mind or body melancholy= a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
- 11. Adlerian Compensation = was afflicted with crossed eyes, and at the age of 9 = had a speech impediment (a stutter) =After being bested in a schoolyard fight, Murray took up boxing and won the local featherweight championship. He later agreed that an Adlerian factor was at work in these childhood efforts to compensate for his disabilities (Murray, 1967, p. 302).
- 12. Marrow of His-Being Memory (at the age of 4 he saw a picture of a sad old woman equally sad to her son )
- 13. Scholastic Background Graduated from Columbia University Medical School in 1919 Earned M.A. in Biology and taught Physiology at Harvard Received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Cambridge University in 1927 Became interested in Psychology when he read the book of Carl Jung-Psychological Types
- 15. What then is meant by TAT? Note: Video Clip
- 25. direction to a behavior
- 38. ANALYSIS What is something special in Murrays Personology? What makes Murrays Id, Superego and Ego different from Freuds? Which of Murrays Principles of Personology more useful to you?
- 59. _____________
- 66. APPLICATION: TERM HUNTS ID PRESS, NEEDS, SUPEREGO, THEMA, EGO,
- 67. 1. _______ are physiologically based hypothetical constructs that arise from internal processes or environmental events 2. ________ is an amalgamation of personal factors (needs) and environmental factors (presses). 3. ________ is shaped by cultural factors 4. ________ is the decision maker of the persons behavior 5. _________ is the reservoir of tendencies
- 68. Answers: 1. Needs 2. Thema 3. Superego 4. Ego 5. Id