Abstract

GUIMARAES, Aline Pinheiro Macedo  and  SILVA NETO, Melchisedech César. The Self Formation and the Affective Dependence: a Person Centered Approach literature review. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2015, vol.7, n.2, pp. 48-77. ISSN 2175-2591.

This article aims to discuss the Person Centered Approach understanding about the affective dependence, specifying the symptoms of the affective dependence, the self concept formation, and the relationship between the concepts of the approach and the characteristics present in the disorder. For this, a literature review will be held within the period from 2005 to 2015 (except for work basis that are stated in earlier editions). The results were that by the lack of acceptance found in the enviroment that surounds the human being affected by this disorder, the person with the dependent personality will be always adapting to the others, causing the distortion of the true self. To do so, it was discussed that the self -forming process plus the environment available for the personality development, when it is not favorable, it occurs a distortion of the self, causing the dependent personality disorder formation.

Keywords : Affective dependence; Person centered approach; Self.

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