Intrapersonal communication

Berne (1968) created 3 ego states: child, parent, adult

child: emotional, poorly controlled way, sulky, when drunk or hyper we retreat to child mode

parent: critical and nuturing, conditioning

adult: reason and logic, emotions under control

Freud said the personality consisted of three parts

id: basic human insticts

ego: logic

super ego: moral

Three experiences which Laing labelled as follows:

• Engulfment: the fear of being swallowed up, suffocated by others involvement
• Implosion: the fear the world at any moment will come crashing in and obliterate their identity.
• Petrification/depersonalisation- the fear of being turned into stone or being braon washed

Jung (1963) identified 3 elements to the psyche: consciousness, personal unconsciousness and collective unconsciousness.

• consciousness: known directly to the person: 2 attitudes introversion and extroversion
• personal unconsciousness: depressed or forgotten feelings, only directly available to us through therapy or direct trauma
• collective unconsciousness: inherited from our ancestors

The way we see ourselves affects how we communicate. This is called self concept, it consists of 3 elements: self image, ideal self and self esteem.

• self esteem: social roles- the parts we play either ascribed or achieved, personality traits- statements about what we think we are like.
• self image: various versions of the self which are imaged- social, physical or physiological selves portrayed.
• Ideal self: what we aspire to be