Topic > Summary of Shivapakiam's case using personality...

Shivapakiam, better known as Shiva, is a shy twenty-two-year-old woman. He doesn't open up easily or even talk to anyone outside of his comfort zone. She only has one best friend who she has known since she was seven. Shiva lives in a two-story terrace apartment with his parents and siblings. Unlike her two younger sisters, who wear the latest designer clothes and carry designer bags, Shiva always prefers to keep it simple. Since her parents are workaholics, Shiva is depicted as a mother figure to her younger sisters. He never fails to take care of them and concentrate on his university studies. Furthermore, he is also responsible for the cleanliness and order of his house. With the rare help of his brothers, he cleans the house five times a week, arranging everything in order. Shiva also has a habit of labeling important things in his house as he finds it useful to find them when he urgently needs them. However, in his little free time, he always dedicates himself to art and poetry. Shiva is an overall calm person, but only gets furious when things don't go his way and goes out of his way to be very persistent in what he wants. While Shiva studies at university, almost every day she is busy with homework, exams and her most hated class presentations. Shiva has noticed that when exam time comes she becomes extremely nervous and anxious, until she breaks down and turns to her best friend for comfort. Assessment Tools Shiva was asked to complete three different assessment tools and these assessment tools were used to rate and evaluate Shiva's personality. The three assessment tools were: NEO Personality Inventory – Revised (NEO-PI-R), A Psychodyn...... middle of paper...... from http://www.acer.edu.au/ documents /sample_reports/neo-pir-sample.pdfGignac, G. E., Jang, K. L., & Bates, T. C. (2009). Building redundancy within the five-factor model as measured by the NEO PI-R:. Implications for Emotional Intelligence and Incremental Coherence,51(1), 76-86.McAdams, D. P. (2009). The person: An introduction to the science of personality psychology (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.Morasco, B.J., Gfeller, J.D., & Elder, K.A. (2007). The utility of the NEO–PI–R validity scales for detecting response bias: A comparison with the MMPI–2. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88(3), 227-281. doi:10.1080/00223890701293924Shedler, J. (2010). The effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378Stannard, D. E. (2001). Shrinking history. On Freud and the failure of psychohistory, 47-67