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Also, later theorists were more inclined to analyze the human person, not in pathological or arrested state, but in a normal state. The input of theorists such as Karen Horney and Erik Erikson during the early part of the 20th century stressed human development from infancy to adulthood and the development of human society from a 'primitive' or collective state to today's more individualistic culture. However, theorists such as Karl Jung still made use of Freud's theory of the unconscious, even while Jung was more apt to stress the need to understand the collective unconscious, the social collective memory.
It is interesting to note that Jung's 20th century analysis of personality...
But because modern psychiatry has engaged the use of prescription drugs to treat ailments in the 21st century that once would have been treated only with 'talk' or Freudian therapy, there is less of a stress on the family, the individual, or the individual in society than in previous centuries, and a return, instead to a stress upon biology.
Works Cited
Myers, Daniel. (2003) Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers.
Works Cited
Myers, Daniel. (2003) Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers.
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