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Psychoanalysis offered main traditions exploring human development. Freud introduced psychosexual stages development Erikson introduced psychosocial stages development. Based information gathered weeks reading researching Brandman library formulate a 2 3-page APA style paper addressing: a.
Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development and Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development promotes the concept that each person possesses a form of sexual energy from the moment when he or she is born and that the respective energy develops in five stages as the individual becomes older. From Freud's point-of-view, all stages present in his theory of psychosexual development need to be completed in the order he devised in order for the individual to develop healthily. If they are not completed in a predetermined order, the individual is likely to experience problems integrating the social order, taking into account that he or she failed to develop correctly.
The Oral Stage is the first stage in Freud's theory of psychosexual development, it takes place between birth and eighteen months, and it involves the child becoming concentrated on oral pleasures. If the individual is provided with too much or too little focus on this concept, he or she is likely to develop an Oral Personality. Such personalities are likely to perform a variety of actions related to their mouths as they grow up.
The Anal Stage lasts from eighteen months and until three years and entails the...
Individuals around children and society in general exercise a form of pressure and influence children to control their stimuls. An Anal Personality can be observed by either individuals being obsessed with control and perfection or with people being disorganized.
The Phalic Stage lasts from three years and until six years and involves the pleasure moving to the genitals. Boys experience the Oedipus Complex, as they believe that their fathers are going to hurt them because of the unconscious desire they feel toward their mothers. A Phalic Personality can influence a child to become sexually deviant when he is older or to be confused regarding his sexual identity.
During the Latency (from age 6 to puberty) stage children manage to repress sexual urges and focus on communicating mostly with same-sex friends. The Genital stage lasts from puberty and through adulthood and individuals recuperate their sexual urges with their primary focus being on the genitals.
Erik Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development provide a complex understanding concerning the phases an individual need to go through in order to develop properly from the moment of infancy and until late adulthood.
Infancy lasts from birth until eighteen months and involves children developing trust with regard to their parents. Parents who are not providing children with the ability to trust them are likely to induce feelings related to mistrust as individuals develop. Early…
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