The Influence Of Psychodynamic Theories On Personality Development
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Good Day Class,
This is Psychology News, and I’m your host, Kasieann Clayton.
In today’s top stories:
a) Researchers have identified two propositions that psychodynamic theorists have in common.
b) Karen Horney explains why environmental and social factors strongly influence personality development.
c) Researchers from the University of Technology discuss the relevance of Erikson’s first four stages of development to understanding the psychological development of children in the 21st century.
d) Psychologists criticized of the relevance of Freud’s theory in today’s society.
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Psychodynamic theorists such as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson and Karen Horney believed that our childhood shapes our personality, …show more content…
He believed that each stage of a child’s development beginning at birth is directly related to specific needs and demands, each based on a particular body part and all rooted in a sexual base. He offered dynamic and psychosocial explanations for human behavior as well as conceptualizing what researchers call the psycho-sexual stages of development.
Sigmund believed that gratification during each stage is important to prevent an individual from becoming fixated in any particular level. Fixation, as he described it, is “attaching oneself in an unreasonable or exaggerated way to another individual or one particular stage of development.” Sigmund claimed that such a fixation at one particular stage can cause bad habits or problems in an individual’s adult life.
His explanation of these developmental stages provided early psychosocial explanations for an individual’s deviance or abnormal behavior. According to this theory , there is a delicate of balance that must be met at each stage also he believed that the way that parents handle their children during each of the stages has a profound and lasting impact on the overall development of the child’s psyche. There are five stages outlined in his …show more content…
She came up with three strategies that deals with neurosis. Horney has a strong disagreement with Freud’s Oedipus complex and her theory that girls do not have penis envy but guys have womb envy.
Researchers have concluded that Sigmund Freud theory of psychosexual development and Erik Erickson theory of psychosocial development are common. Both Freud and Erickson recognized the importance of the unconscious on development. They believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages and utilized similar age divisions for these developmental stages. They both agreed that much of people’s development occurred early in life and that a crisis had to be resolved in order to move onto the next stage in life.
Karen Horney explains why environmental and social factors strongly influence personality development. Aldaine has this
Good Day Class,
This is Psychology News, and I’m your host, Kasieann Clayton.
In today’s top stories:
a) Researchers have identified two propositions that psychodynamic theorists have in common.
b) Karen Horney explains why environmental and social factors strongly influence personality development.
c) Researchers from the University of Technology discuss the relevance of Erikson’s first four stages of development to understanding the psychological development of children in the 21st century.
d) Psychologists criticized of the relevance of Freud’s theory in today’s society.
The news in details.
Psychodynamic theorists such as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson and Karen Horney believed that our childhood shapes our personality, …show more content…
He believed that each stage of a child’s development beginning at birth is directly related to specific needs and demands, each based on a particular body part and all rooted in a sexual base. He offered dynamic and psychosocial explanations for human behavior as well as conceptualizing what researchers call the psycho-sexual stages of development.
Sigmund believed that gratification during each stage is important to prevent an individual from becoming fixated in any particular level. Fixation, as he described it, is “attaching oneself in an unreasonable or exaggerated way to another individual or one particular stage of development.” Sigmund claimed that such a fixation at one particular stage can cause bad habits or problems in an individual’s adult life.
His explanation of these developmental stages provided early psychosocial explanations for an individual’s deviance or abnormal behavior. According to this theory , there is a delicate of balance that must be met at each stage also he believed that the way that parents handle their children during each of the stages has a profound and lasting impact on the overall development of the child’s psyche. There are five stages outlined in his …show more content…
She came up with three strategies that deals with neurosis. Horney has a strong disagreement with Freud’s Oedipus complex and her theory that girls do not have penis envy but guys have womb envy.
Researchers have concluded that Sigmund Freud theory of psychosexual development and Erik Erickson theory of psychosocial development are common. Both Freud and Erickson recognized the importance of the unconscious on development. They believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages and utilized similar age divisions for these developmental stages. They both agreed that much of people’s development occurred early in life and that a crisis had to be resolved in order to move onto the next stage in life.
Karen Horney explains why environmental and social factors strongly influence personality development. Aldaine has this