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Psychology 230S: Personality & its Transformations

Psychology 230S: Personality & its Transformations Jordan B. Peterson Overview The Web-Site A Dream The Lectures The Readings The Syllabus Exams and Essays The Web-site: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy17syll.htm jordanbpeterson@yahoo.com The Dream

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Psychology 230S: Personality & its Transformations

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  1. Psychology 230S: Personality & its Transformations Jordan B. Peterson

  2. Overview • The Web-Site • A Dream • The Lectures • The Readings • The Syllabus • Exams and Essays

  3. The Web-site: • http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy17syll.htm • jordanbpeterson@yahoo.com

  4. The Dream • I dreamed I was in a first floor lecture hall, composed of a number of rooms. The room (shaped like half a cross) was full of picnic benches. • The students were sitting on these benches -- lots of them -- in overcoats. The room was noisy and high-spirited. I was disorganized -- had forgotten various papers, etc.

  5. Students were sceptical and noisy, while I was talking. At one point -- in the room off to the side of the major hall -- someone pulled out some musical instruments and started a dance. • I broke the class up, and took a break.

  6. We came back -- this time on the second floor of a building (again, with many rooms). • This time, I said what I really had to say -- fading in and out, as I walked from room to room.

  7. This class is about you -- a story about you -- about the history that made you who you are, and that shaped your notions of who you should be. • It’s a story -- or, more accurately, a sequence of stories, some tightly predicated on experimental work, some more like history or literature, some with pronounced philosophical and religious overtones.

  8. It has a central message, nonetheless -- at least taken as a whole: to thine own self be true. • Allow yourself the luxury of the full development of your spirit. Find out who you really are.

  9. I said all this in a sort of intoxicated state -- a daze -- wandering somewhat incoherently from room to room -- and then left the lecture hall, unexpectedly, foolishly holding up my too-large pants (because I had forgotten my suspenders). • But the noisy group was quiet, and had listened.

  10. The Lectures Biological Theories: Framing, Motivation & Emotion Developmental Constructivism Trait Personality & Intelligence Personality Pathology Humanism Existentialism Phenomenology Narrative and Depth Psychology Meta-Narratives

  11. The Readings • Introduction to Personality & Psychotherapy • Joseph Rychlak, author • 8 chapters required • Online Readings

  12. The Syllabus

  13. The Structure of the Course • A sequence of stories • Which produce alteration in conception

  14. Exams and Essays • 25%: Midterm 1 • 30%: Midterm 2 • 30%: Final • 15%: 750-word essay • Exams are not cumulative • The 750-word essay will be due according to topic chosen. Sign-up sheets will be posted by topic outside Office 4006, Sidney Smith Hall.

  15. Should You Take this Course? • reading load • lecture speed • philosophical/empirical intermingling • assessment procedure

  16. The Web-site, reprise: • http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/psy17syll.htm • jordanbpeterson@yahoo.com

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