It's all me

Latest diagnostic manual, DSM-V has defined personality disorder as a failure to develop self-identity and capacity for interpersonal relationships which would be considered normal compared to persons cultural and social background. Personality disorder affects all areas of person’s life, from social interactions to emotional responses and perception of the world. However, DSM-V defines 5…

Green fractal spiral made in Ultra Fractal. My goal was to make it look as if it was drawn on notebook paper :)

Fractal made in Fractal Explorer (with a bit of Photoshop touch-up) which I can only describe as if some strange planet was ‘posing’ for still nature image.

Fractal image created in Ultra fractal, with an idea to use ripple effect to it’s fullest potential.

Fractal Alien

Fractal that looks to me, at least, almost like alien creature. Found using free fractal creation program XaoS.

Introductory explanation of personality disorders

As I wrote previously, there are number of theories stating what personality is. In general, personality is complex organization of all our behavior, thoughts and emotions. So, when it comes to personality disorders, defining them is bit more simple: personality disorders are permanent and characteristic behavioral, emotional and thought patterns which deviate from normal (no matter how exactly…

As most personality theories state, of course, when not looked separately, but as different views on human being and personality, human development and life cycle are complex products of various internal and external factors, including genetics, environment and our own actions. Environment in this case includes values, not only parental values in the early stages of personality development, but…

Skinner’s Behavioral Personality Theory

Most of us have heard of Skinner’s theory basic principles: the behaviors we want to sustain, we award; and the punishment is there for behaviors that need to be eliminated. According to this, our personalities are nothing more but past histories of such award/ punishment cycles that made us who we are.

Most psychologists nowadays think this is way too simplistic view of something as complex as…

Carl Roger’s personality theory can be interpreted as a complete opposite of Freudian psychoanalytical personality theory, mainly because Carl Rogers puts Self (the conscious, rational part) at the core of personality, but they still have some common points. This happens simply because it’s hard to define ‘Self’ without mentioning it’s opposite – the unconscious, unprocessed information we’re…