ABSTRACT
Andras Angyal felt that almost all theories of disturbed behavior proposed by other scholars focused on what he called the pattern of vicarious living. Arthur Janov, who developed primal scream therapy, has a theory of disturbed behavior that is in some respects similar to psychoanalytic theory. Janov’s theory resembles Freud’s psychoanalytic theory quite closely. Janov’s theory can be reconceptualized as a mix of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Angyal’s holistic theory, and, in particular, Janov made what Angyal called the pattern of vicarious living the prototype of neurotic styles. This chapter reviews that the Edwin Wagner has proposed a distinction in personality that is similar to the ideas. Wagner has argued that personality can be seen as the result of two psychological structures: a facade self and an introspective self. The facade self is a hierarchically organized set of attitudes and behavioral tendencies that are acquired early in life and that become automatic.
