Essays on Stages of Psychosexual Development

Introduction Sigmund Freud was father of psychoanalysis who was first person to study unconscious mind shaping one’s personality. Our unconscious mind works like a store house to repressed feelings which is responsible for conflicts e.g., anxiety, neurosis, hysteria etc., during later stages. According to Freud’s…

In the 1900s, psychoanalysis was the most distinct theory in psychology literature. ‘‘Behaviorist Manifesto’’ which is found by J. B. Watson, neo-analytic approaches by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney and also, Gestalt psychology was the influential and prominent theories in that era. However,…

Introduction Life-span developmental psychology focuses on individual development from conception to death. The main presumption of developmental psychology is that development does not complete at adulthood, but rather continues throughout life (Baltes et al., 1999). Development can be characterized into various stages which are defined…

For a child to meet the predetermined normalities of a society, an individual will go through certain stages of development throughout their life. Robert Dale Parker, the author of How to Interpret Literature, explains that: In Freud’s model, the child typically moves through a series…

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic hypothesis of character contends that human conduct is the consequence of the associations among three-segment portions of the brain: the id, sense of self, and superego. This hypothesis, known as Freud’s basic hypothesis of character, places extraordinary accentuation on the job of…

Sex education, a buzzword is playing a vital role in making the generation aware of their body in an effective way. “If children learn sex education as a relation between their parents to which they owe their existence, they will learn of it in its…

I have been studying about your theory, Psychodynamic theory and somehow I think that it is very interesting. Since I’m attracted to it, I want to use your theory as a guide for my counselling sessions in the future. As you have claimed, Psychodynamic theory…

Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) is one of the main characters from the hit TV series “FRIENDS,” was born April 8, 1968. His parents Nora Tyler Bing, an erotic novelist, and Charles Bing, a crossdressing, homosexual burlesque star, provided an unstable home for young Chandler, they…

Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is commonly diagnosed in children, with average onset at the age of 6 years old. (Battaglia et al., 2016). Current research agrees that parental intrusiveness and overinvolvement is one of the leading triggers for SAD in children who are already vulnerable…

Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development are based on (and expand upon) Freud’s psychosexual theory. Erikson proposed that we are motivated by the need to achieve competence in certain areas of our lives. According to psychosocial theory, we experience eight stages of development over our lifespan,…