1.PERSONALITY KEY TO CUREDr.V.Veera Balaji Kumar

2. Seeking the blessings of FounderUnsung Hero of the last millennium 3. What is a Personality ? The word comes from the Latinpersona, meaning mask. A persons 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 determinespersonality 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 personalityand 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 afamily 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 childrens 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 childs personality and their social behavior. 10. Cultural Environment Culture has a strong influence onpersonality 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 Freuds theorywhich proposes that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality 13. The Psychoanalytic Perspective Unconscious according to Freud, a reservoir ofmostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories contemporary viewpointinformation processing of which we are unaware 14. Personality Structure EgoConscious mindPre-conscious mind SuperegoId Freuds ideaof the minds structure 15. Homeopathic personalities Each of homeopathic remedies (mostlypolychrest) 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 asStaphysagria patient or Pulsatilla patient. Personalities change across life time. A Natrum mur may change to Sepia or even to a Phosphorus personality. 17. ABC OF EMOTIONS