Location and time:
Sidney Smith 2118
Mondays and Wednesdays 1:30-3:00
Professor:
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson, is a practicing clinical psychologist,
and has been a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto since
1998.
Between 1993 and 1998, he was a member of the Department of Psychology at
Harvard.
He received his Ph.D. at McGill in 1991.
Personality and its transformations:
It was personality theory that thrust psychology
into the forefront of popular consciousness during the 20th century.
Psychology 230S is a course that concentrates to a large degree on
philosophical and neuroscientific issues, related to personality. It is divided into five primary
topics, following an introduction and overview. The first half of the course
deals with classic, clinical issues of personality; the second, with
biological and psychometric issues. Students who are interested in clinical
psychology, moral development, functional neurobiology and psychometric
theory should adapt well to the class. An intrinsic interest in
philosophical issues is a necessity.
Topics [2010-2011]
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| Section 1, Historical Perspectives,
describes pre-scientific conceptions of the self and its
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Section 2, contains
an analysis of Constructivism, the belief that the
individual assembles him or herself and the world through active
exploration and testing. |
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Section 3,
Depth Psychology, consists of the thought and concepts of
the psychoanalysts C.G. Jung and S. Freud as clinical theory and
as interpretation of basic narrative thinking. |
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| Section 4 consists of Existentialism, Humanism and
Phenomenology, fields of thought concerned with the relationship
between the individual, meaning and health, discussed from
the perspective of philosophy and political science. |
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Section 5, Biology and Traits
contains an integrated discussion of neuroscience and
psychometrics. |
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The course reaches its Conclusion with a lecture on the psychology of belief
and its relationship to personality. |
What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties,
in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel
in apprehension, how like a god!.
- William Shakespeare-
