Psychological Analysis and Evaluation

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This paper discusses the view that personality development is a growth process which can successfully overcome and deal with socio-psychological and even physical impairment that may have a psychological impact and dimensions. The paper focuses on a specific subject whose disadvantageous experience at an early age played a subconscious role in the subject's self - perception and esteem later in life; but which was successfully overcome in the process of personality growth towards a more integrated whole.

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"There are two aspects that seem to be run concurrently in the analysis of the school years of development. The first, as mentioned, was the slight visual aspect which was rectified and therefore had no long-term effects. However, the second issue is a psychological one which was to have a greater impact; this was the feeling of inadequacy which was initiated by very high exceptions, coupled with a social and home environment which possibly demanded achievements that were unrealistic at the time. She states that; "Average grades are disasters for me. I have high expectations of myself." This is also evidenced by the statement by the subject that marks of 80 or 90 percent were not deemed to be sufficient by the subject's mother. While this was possibly a form of encouragement, it also served to add to an already sensitive level of low self-worth, which was to follow the subject into her two marriages. Throughout it must be emphasized that the subject shows an extremely laudable sense of resilience in the battle against this feeling of low esteem."

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