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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Personality Psychology 2 - APS100090
Title: Psychologie osobnosti 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2025
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, C [HT]
Capacity: 60 / 60 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: PhDr. Jiří Michalec, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Marek Blatný, DrSc.
PhDr. Jiří Michalec, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Mikoška, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : APS100089
Annotation -
Course content. The winter semester is designed to introduce students primarily to a detailed phenomenology (but also in part to more abstract conceptualizations) of the major personality (proto)types. The winter semester is particularly focused on personality types that are relevant for subsequent training in clinical psychology and psychodiagnostics in the context of clinical psychology. For example, the following personality (proto)types will be specifically discussed: paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal, dissociative, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive (anankastic), depressive, (hypo)manic, masochistic, and infantile.
Students will be introduced to the full spectrum of personality types - from pathological forms to normal and healthy manifestations.
Lectures will also introduce a number of other relevant theories necessary to develop students' ability to think about personality. These include theories of personality organization/structure, defense and coping mechanisms, and others.
Knowledge gained. Students will learn a number of new, primarily practical concepts that they can use to describe various personality characteristics in detail and nuanced ways. They will also gain knowledge of which characteristics are diagnostically most important for each personality type and which are secondary.
Skills acquired. Through significant enrichment with practical knowledge, students will learn to notice, recognize and describe different aspects and shades of the main modes of personal functioning and to differentiate effectively between them in everyday life and in future practice.

Last update: Mikoška Petr, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D., Ph.D. (23.02.2026)
Course completion requirements -

Credit: Self-study of designated literature and independent team work based on it, according to instructions given by the teacher during class. The summer semester ends with a written test or oral exam, which must be passed in order to receive credit.  

Last update: Mikoška Petr, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D., Ph.D. (23.02.2026)
Literature -

Akhtar, S. (1992). Broken Structures, Jason Aronson Inc.
Millon, T. (2004). Personality Disorders in Modern Life. Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., & Ayduk, O. (2007). Introduction to personality: Toward an integrative science of the person (8th Edition). NY: Wiley

Deaux, Kay, and Mark Snyder (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, Oxford Library of Psychology (2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Sept. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195398991.001.0001,

Last update: Nikolai Tomáš, doc. Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (15.12.2023)
 
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