List and Explain the Three Different Lifestyles or Styles of Adaptation

question 58

Essay

List and explain the three different lifestyles or styles of adaptation to prison life used by female prisoners that were identified by researcher Esther Heffernan.Also identify the new type of inmate that began arriving in women's prisons about 2 years ago and explain how this inmate type affected the social structure of women's prisons.

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Definitions:

Personal Unconscious

In Jungian theory, it refers to all information that is present within an individual's mind, but not currently in conscious awareness.

Psyche

Jung’s term for personality.

Persona

The aspect of an individual's character that is presented to or perceived by others; often a social mask worn by individuals.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that mediates between conscious and unconscious processes, often associated with a sense of self and reality testing.