|
Prescott Lecky (1892–1941) was a lecturer of Psychology at Columbia University from 1924 to 1934. At a time when American psychology was dominated by behaviorism, he developed the concept of self-help as a method in psychotherapy of the self in the 1920s. His concepts influenced Maxwell Maltz in his writing of the classic self-help book, Psycho-Cybernetics. Lecky stressed the defense mechanism of resistance as an individual's method of regulating his self-concept. Lecky's self-consistency theory, that self-consistency is a primary motivating force in human behavior. Lecky's theory concerned the organization of ideas of the self and the self's overall need for a "master" motive that serves to maintain for the self a consistency in ideas. 〔Merenda, PF. "Similarities between Prescott Lecky's Theory of Self-Consistency and Carl Rogers' Self-Theory." Psychological Reports. 107.2 (2010): 647-58. Print. 〕Self-consistency theory remains relevant to contemporary personality and clinical psychologists. He was well known as a psychologist and counseled John F. Kennedy when he was having trouble at Choate preparatory school. His students gathered together his ideas and posthumously published them as ''Self Consistency: a theory of personality'' in 1945.〔 (online version )〕 ==See also== *Self-concept 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prescott Lecky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|