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Personality - Deep dive

My interest area is to understand the structure and development of personality. Personality is enduring or lasting patterns of behavior and thought.  So we have four major perspectives on personality Psychoanalytic - Unconscious motivations  Trait - Specific dimension of personality Humanistic - inner capacity for growth  social cognitive - influence of environment. Sigmund Freud Theories Its very common scene in movies and books, as part of psychology and therapies - Psychologist involves himself in psychoanalysis but do we know who is the founder - it is Sigmund Freud.  He is an Austrian neurologist, Voracious reader, medical school graduate  and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.   He divided personality mainly in three parts.  The id is the most primitive part of the personality that is the source of all our most basic urges. This part ...

Ethics and Morals - Please leave your comments -

Ethics  Mohammed Ibrahim works as one of the ten supervisors in a company called Swachh Bharath a medium sized pest control company. The company services shops including restaurants to clean the pests and uses a certified process involving some chemicals. The process involves that of mixing a toxic chemical, which kills pests with other ingredients in a particular ratio and cleans up the pest. As the toxic ingredients are harmful to human beings, which might lead to allergy or even death in rare cases, after fumigation, the place has to be sealed after cleaning for two days and then can be opened for use, which needs to be supervised by Swachh Bharath. This procedure is placed in the technical manual and also needs to be signed in the contract order as a stringent safety procedure. The company has to execute certain number of orders to be profitable and to stay in business.   Many shop owners who order for the service found it very difficult to close the place for two days...