Relative autonomy in psychology refers to the degree to which a person’s behaviour is self-determined rather than controlled by external pressures. Found within Self-Determination Theory, it measures where an individual’s motivation falls on a continuous spectrum from complete external control to total internal choice
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
