PSYCHOGENIC NEEDS

BY:- FIROZ QURESHIDEPT.

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

INTRODUCTION

In 1938 Henry Murray published explorations in personality. His system describing personality in terms of needs. For Murray, human nature involved a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences on these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need.

In other words, specific needs are more important to some than to others. Frustration of these psychogenic (or psychological) needs plays a central role in the origin of psychological pain. He focused on basic needs in personality which he called psychogenic needs.

DEFINITION OF

PERSONALITY

Personality is located in the brain “NO brain, NO personality”

“An individual’s personality refers to a series of events that ideally span the person’s lifetime. The history of the personality is the personality.”

“A definition of personality should reflect the enduring and recurring elements of behaviours as well as the novel and unique.”

CLASSIFICATION OF NEEDS

Primary needs(biological needs)Secondary needs(psychogenic

needs)

PSYCHOGENIC NEEDS

Affiliation

Construction

Counteraction

Deference

Dominance

Exhibition

Exposition

Harm avoidance

Infavoidance

Nurturance

Order

Play

Recognition

Rejection

Sentience

Sex

Similance

Succorance

Understanding

SUMMARY & CONCLUSION