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Reiss Profile – Self Fulfillment: The Individual-Biographic

 

Revealing, Daring and Unfolding

What motivates people?

Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Alfred Adler – the founders of modern psychotherapy – stand in the tradition of the psychology of personality of the incipient 20th Century. They deal with character structure and the “build up of the person” (Phillip Lersch). The so called “subconsciousness” was discovered to answer the question what drives and motivates people.

In Freud's concept it was mainly the sexual drive. Adler assumed that it was the desire for power and application determinant for the subconscious.

C.G. Jung was convinced of the striving of a human for individuality or self-fulfillment that lead him out of the subconscious and into a dream.

In the humanistic psychology, fulfilled sexuality and self-fulfillment for emotional health were key fundamentals.

To find a fulfilled life by self-fulfillment is an expectation that answers the spirit of optimism of the sixties and seventies.

Systemic short-therapy as an answer to today’s situation

All forms of consulting with the concept of individuality, meaning development of the personality, have this connection to history.
Today, at the end of the 20th Century the situation has changed: The secondary factors are now emerging as having primary roles.

Just as Bateson phrased it in the seventies: Our culture is endangering the survival on this earth with the intent to save individual life and not only to satisfy our individual needs but also to increase them in a sometimes unreasonable way.

We are forced to acknowledge that we as individuals are bound in multiplex correlations, but at the same time, carry responsibilities.

An existential paradox emerges. 

During the systematic approach a paradigm shift from the "personal view" to the "systemic view" took place. It is here that the human interrelation is predominant. As a result, the person gains an idea of the world of the other individual, hence achieving new aspects and solution possibilities. Furthermore, an awareness of an inevitable being connected is developed by these experiences.

Concept and dealings with the subconscious are completed by the “between-conscious”.

Approach of the Reiss-Profile

The Reiss-Profile is the future for easy understanding of what motivates people.

Due to his own severe illness Dr. Steven Reiss asked himself: “What motivates me to stay alive?” The accredited professor for psychology and motivation scientist at the Nisong Institution of the University Ohio started two studies with each 10.000 men and women in the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. After psychology developed theories for decades about human motivation on a basis of hypotheses and personality patterns, Steven Reiss had the idea to ask the people themselves:

Concerning motivation and personality, what drives us?

Success, career, family, status? What is really important to us? What makes us happy?

By these studies and considering strict scientific aspects Reiss discovered 16 basic desires that underlie all human behavioural patterns. In each of these strivings, it is the desire for final purpose which drives a person. These desires are our individual motivation for our individual happiness; they motivate our actions and define our personalities. This purpose is the expression of unchangeable traits of a person and is the foundation for his perception, feeling, thinking and behaviour out of impulse. It is possible to make predictions about the behaviour of a person as the traits are unchangeable. Those basic desires in their particular characteristics are extremely resilient over long time and influence