By Cary L. Cooper
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Our past, not in order use it or to be free of not the victim of your victim of the way you Obstacles to seHknowleclge and seH-change We need to understand and acknowledge to repeat it but in order either to it. As Kelly (1969) put it, 'you are autobiography but you may become the interpret your autobiography'. Ta try and understand oneself is not simply an interesting pastime, it is a necessity of life. In order to plan our future and to make choices we have to be able to anticipate our behaviour in future situations.
2. Examine the way in which a person's idea of 'self' is affected by the nature of their work. 3. Discuss the nature of sex differences in ideas about 'self'. 4. How can we 'keep track' of ourselves? 5. What does Kelly mean by 'hostility'? Give examples. 6. Outline one theory of 'self' you have read about. 28 Knowledge of self 7. Describe some way in which you have increased knowledge of self. 8. Comment on Radley's idea of change through role enactment. 9. Outline Freud's picture of self as made up of id, ego and super-ego.
20. Can psychologists measure personality? 21. Wh at , in your view, are the main hindrances of selfknowledge? 22. Write an essay on 'guilt'. 23. ' What triggers off this kind of comment, and does i t say more about the speaker than the person of whom it is said? 24. How can we go about chan ging ourselves? 25. What idea about 'self', proposed by anyone (psychologist , poet, friend or whatever) has impressed you most? Why? 26. Your family teaches you what to think of yourself. Discuss. 27. Your job enables you to express yourself.