Introduction to psychological perspectives

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Introduction to psychological perspectives

• Dr Alec Duncan-Grant
• INAM
• Faculty of Health
• University of Brighton

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Learning outcomes

• To appreciate the complexity of what it means to
  be a person in the social world
• To consider the implications for nursing
  practice, professional and and self development

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Aspects of the self

• embodiment
• subjective experience
• social medium
• unconscious feelings
• the above in complex interrelation

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1. the embodied self a biological perspective

• the body and personality
• the body and addiction
• behaviour and evolution
• how much autonomy do we have we are
  simultaneously enabled and trapped

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2a. the reflexive self an experiential
perspective

• the phenomenological approach -
• conscious awareness
• the ability to reflect
• the ability to choose to grow -
• autonomy versus the fear of freedom

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2b. the reflexive self an interpretive
perspective

• the cognitive behavioural perspective - meanings
  need not be fixed

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3a.the distributed self-a social constructionist
perspective

• The static self versus the fluid self
• language constructing the world and the self
• the distributed self

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3b. aspects of the distributed self

• emergent
• contextual
• discursive
• multiple
• relational
• mutual

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5 minute exercise

• what distinguishes you from being an object, or
  an animal, or another different person?

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3c development of the distributed self

• preparatory stage
• play stage
• game stage

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4a The defensive self - basic assumptions

• unconscious motivation
• irrationality and defence mechanisms

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4b the defensive self Freud and development

• id
• ego
• superego

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5. implications for nursing practice?

• What are the implications? - over to you

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6. Implications for development

• what are the implications for professional
  development?
• what are the implications for professional and
  self development

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