Peter Stuyvesant

Peter Stuyvesant

Narcissistic Personality

Biography

Life in the Colony

Psychology Perspective

• Narcissistic Personality Disorder involves arrogant behavior, a lack of empathy for other people, hight Self-esteem and a need for admiration-all

• People who are narcissistic are frequently described as cocky, self-centered, manipulative, and demanding. Narcissists may concentrate on unlikely personal outcomes (e.g., fame) and may be convinced that they deserve special treatment.

• However, narcissism is not the same thing as self-esteem; people who have high self-esteem are often humble, whereas narcissists rarely are. It was once thought that narcissists have high self-esteem on the surface, but deep down they are insecure.

As a result of this trouble, when war arose between England and Holland and English warships appeared in New York harbor in 1664, although the city was defended by a stone fort and 20 cannon, the people refused to resist the invaders. So Stuyvesant was forced to surrender the town to the English, and New Amsterdam became New York.

• Peter Stuyvesant the son of a clergyman of Friesland
• Born in the Netherlands in 1592.
• Served in the Dutch Army in the West Indies and was the governor of the Dutch West India Company's colony of Curacoa. (1642- 1644)
• In 1646 became the 7th and last director-general of New Netherlands.(New York) Replacing Willem Keft
• He sailed to the new world and reached New Amsterdam on May 11, 1647.

From a Psychodynamic Perspective

Accoding to Sigmund Freud, Stuyvesant behavior had to do with his unconscious mind. For eample, his childhood experiences. Freud's believe that our mind is compose of the id, the, ego and the superego.

id= Unconscious desires

Ego= Deals with the demands of the real world

Superego=Our internalized morals, standards, and ideals.

• In September 1647, he appointed an advisory council of nine men as representatives of the colonists on New Netherland, and organized a council and established a court of Justice

Rules Established

• Stuyvesant introduced a number of needed reforms
• Controlled traffic and sanitation
• Regulated liquor sales
• Punishing those who were not members of the Dutch Reformed church, or with his rules
• Hight taxes were collected

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1592

Death

Stuyvesant Personality

How Stuyvesant lost his right leg

Behavioral Perspective

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• In April 1644, he attacked the Spanish-held island of Saint Martin and lost the lower part of his right leg to a cannonball

Humanistic Perspective

• Authoritarian
• Despotic
• Arrogant
• Manipulative
• Self-important
• Power
• Unique

• Stuyvesant spent the remainder of his life on his farm of sixty-two acres outside the city, called the Great Bouwerie, beyond which stretched woods and swamps to the little village of Haarlem (Harlem).
• Until his death in February 1672.

. Has a grandiose sense of self-importance.

2. Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.

3. Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions).

4. Requires excessive admiration [regularly fishes for compliments, and is highly susceptible to flattery].

5. Has a sense of entitlement.

6. Is interpersonally exploitative.

7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling [or, I would add, unable] to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.

8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her.

9. Shows arrogant, haughty [rude and abusive] behaviors or attitudes

From a Behaviorla Perspective Stuyvesant Behavior was learn and reinforced from the people around him .

From a Humanistic Perspective psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.

By: Denise C.