2017 Personality 01: Introduction

In this lecture, Jordan define personality from multiple angles, historical, constructivist, psychoanalytic, behavioral and neuropsychological.

Personality is a way of looking at the world, and a characteristic mode of behaving. It’s both stable and adaptively dynamic.
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2017 Personality 02/03: Historical & Mythological Context

In this lecture, 02 and 03 combined, Jordan provide some historical context for the understanding of personality, suggesting that the clinical theories, concerned with the transformation and improvement of personality and character, are embedded within a classic narrative/mythological structure. Go to Video

2017 Personality 04/05: Heroic and Shamanic Initiations

In this lecture, 04 and 05 combined, Jordan discuss the relationship between the initiatory structure characteristic of shamanism and the process of radical personality transformation, self- or therapy-induced.

The basic structure is order/paradise, chaos/the fall, re-establishment of order/paradise. Since all paradises fall, however, the true paradise is identification with the process of transformation itself. Go to Video

2017 Personality 06: Jean Piaget & Constructivism

In this lecture, Jordan talk about the great developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, who was interested, above all, in the way that knowledge is generated and transforms.

His analysis of the development of morality in children, which relates early play to social cooperation and competition, is particularly profound. 
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