1. PERSONALITY – KEY TO CURE
Dr.V.Veera Balaji Kumar

2. Seeking the blessings of Founder
Unsung Hero of the last millennium

3. What is a Personality ?
 The word comes from the Latin
persona, meaning “mask.”
 A person’s characteristic pattern
of thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that is consistent
across time and situations
 Relatively enduring underlying
dispositions that influence
behavior across situations

4. Nature vs. Nurture
 Sociologists debate what determines
personality and social behavior.
 Some argue that it is heredity – the
transmission of genetic characteristics from
parents to children.
 Others suggest that the social environment –
contact with other people – determines
personality.
 This debate is usually referred to in terms of
nature versus nurture, or inherited genes
versus environment and social learning.

5. Blending of factors…
 Most social scientists assume that personality
and social behavior result from a blending of
heredity and social environmental influences.
 They believe that environmental factors have
the greatest influence.
 Heredity, birth order, parents, and cultural
environment are among the principal factors
that social scientists see influencing
personality and behavior.

6. Physical environment
Hot temperatures augment
aggression –
murders, rapes, riots and wifebeatings.
 Onset of winds in Santa Ana
in California correlates with
increased crime, suicide and
industrial accidents.


7. Birth Order
Our personalities are
influenced by whether we
have
brothers, sisters, both, or
neither.
 Children with siblings have
a different view of the world
than do children who have
siblings.
 The order in which we are
born into our families also
influences our personalities.


8. Birth Order
 People born first or last in a
family have a different
perspective than do people in
the middle.
 Example: first born are likely to
be achievement oriented and
responsible.
 Later born are more likely to be
better in social
relationships, affectionate, friend
ly, or rebels and risk-takers.

9. Parental Characteristics
Parents influence their childrens’
personalities. The age of the
parent can be a bearing on the
children’s development. (EX.
Younger vs. older)
 Other parental characteristics like
level of education, religious
orientation, economic
status, occupation, and cultural
heritage can and often do influence
a child’s personality and their social
behavior.


10. Cultural Environment
 Culture has a strong influence on
personality development. The cultural
environment determines the basic types
of personalities that will be found in a
society.
 Each culture gives rise to a series of
personality traits – model personalities
– that are typical of members of that
society.
 E.g. U.S. personalities are
competitive, assertiveness and
individualism.
 E.g. Asian culture engenders
interdependency & collectivism

11. Cultural Environment

12. The Psychoanalytic Perspective
 From Freud’s theory
which proposes that
childhood sexuality
and unconscious
motivations influence
personality

13. The Psychoanalytic
Perspective
 Unconscious
 according to Freud, a reservoir of
mostly unacceptable
thoughts, wishes, feelings and
memories
 contemporary viewpointinformation processing of which
we are unaware

14. Personality Structure
Ego
Conscious mind
Pre-conscious mind
Superego
Id
 Freud’s idea
of the mind’s
structure

15. Homeopathic personalities
 Each of homeopathic remedies (mostly
polychrest) has a unique personality – a unique
way of thinking, feeling and behaving.
 A intellectual, Critical, Angry and Untidy, Sulphur.
 A neat and tidy; anxious, restless and fearful
Arsenicum.
 A gregarious, affectionate, excitable and fearful
Phosphorus.

16. Fixing medicines for people
 A common mistake is to brand a patient as
Staphysagria patient or Pulsatilla patient.
 Personalities change across life time.
 A Natrum mur may change to Sepia or even to a
Phosphorus personality.

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