Essays on Psychosexual

Demographic aging refers to the shift of the age structure or age distribution of a population as the population moves towards older ages. The effect of demographic aging is a decline in fertility transition, reduced mortality rate of older persons, increased dependency ratio and a shrinking labor force. Historians see a great divide between the traditional and modern view of aging. In traditional societies, families maintained closer ties for their entire lives. Besides, the people kept childhood friendships active as they moved into old age and community members integrated. Cultural values entrenched a strong respect for the elderly, which ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) The Tavistock Model was originally developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London around the onset of the First World War It started as a classroom experiment for students studying infants, but soon became an accepted practice throughout the social science field as a means of observing infants, children, and adults. The model itself has deep roots in Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory and was developed as a collaboration between child psychoanalyst Esther Bick and Dr. John Bowlby. Because the concentration started as a means of observing the stages of emotional and mental development in children, ...

Freud’s psychosexual development phases include are five in number with each of the stages having a particular erogenous region.

Oral- this stage occurs between the period from birth to the first birthday. The erogenous region is the mouth and getting stuck in this stage means the individual will result in an immature, gullible and passive personality that is manipulative in nature (Furnham, 2015). Anal- between the first and the third birthday the bladder and bowel become the erogenous zones. It is at this phase that the ego of the child is developing and toilet training is the major experience for the child (Freud, 2010). Getting stuck in this stage the child might become obsessively neat and organized or ...

Child development takes place in discrete phases and ranges from birth to adulthood. These stages of development comprise various interrelated aspects such as socialization, motor skills, language, cognitive ability, emotional aspects, and social interaction. Various theories emphasize on the issues of development such as Vygotsky and Jeane Piaget theories. Piaget's model discusses concerns about the acquisition of knowledge and mechanisms of intellectual development. On the other hand, Vygotsky tended to focus mostly on the influence of culture on social and material structure and language of society (Steinberg & Vandergrift, 2010). Infant development and growth requires a combination of theories to ...

What part of this dilemma should a counselor point out is Yelena’s responsibility to acknowledge and address?

The sexual disconnect between James and Yelena is essentially a consequence of an absence in open and honest communication between them about sex, particularly in expressing their specific needs in relation to sex, which is referred to in psychological literature as ‘sexual self-disclosure’ (Tang, Bensman, & Hatfield, 2013; Litzinger & Gordon, 2005) or ‘dyadic sexual communication’ (Pazmany, et al., 2014). Yelena had been enduring an unsatisfactory sex with her husband for more than two decades because she decided not to communicate her needs on the mistaken notion that doing so is being unfeminine. Yelena felt the dilemma between her need for ...

Explain the Life Span Perspective of Development

The life span perspective of development focuses on individuals’ development through their respective lifespan. It is concerned with who people are and how they gradually gain their identity. Research suggests that psychoanalytic theories attempt to provide insight into an individual’s lifespan development as well as the developmental stages that a person undergoes in their life (Doise, 1998). Ideally, the lifespan perspective offers useful information regarding the way environmental and hereditary factors interact to create the differences in individuals’ lifespan development. The perspective is essential in the study of human development because it provides significant insight into an individual’ ...

Abstract

Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, has made lasting contributions in the field of psychology because of his theory on psychosexual and personality development. His unorthodox psychological techniques and theory were influenced by his forerunners and then, after his lifetime, left a lasting impact about how nurture explains human consciousness and behavior, especially, on mental illnesses. His three aspect of the mind: superego, ego, and id, are apt psychodynamic explanations about the workings of the mind and human behavior among his avid followers of psychoanalysts. Further, his stages of psychosexual development: pre-genital, oral, etc., not to mention Oedipus and ...

Each person comes through different stages of development. Thus, there are a lot of theories on psychological development stages. Though, they are different and depend on the different factors. That is why it is not correct to separate some distinct stages of the development. Child development is a complex dialectical process. In psychology, there are the following periods of child and youth development: the newborn (up to 10 days), infant age (under 1 year), early childhood (1-3 years), pre-preschool (3-5 years), preschool (5-7 years) primary school (7-11 years), adolescence (11-15 years), early youth or senior school age (15-18 years). ...

Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Adler Alfred were influential thinkers and contributors to the discipline of psychology (Fairbairn, 2013). Despite the distinctions in theories and perspectives, the three philosophers spent their lives searching a better understanding of humans’ psychological frailties. Furthermore, they tried to identify different approached of bettering them. Specifically, Freud suggested that the development of a child proceeds through stages associated with one’s physical development, and the way crises are resolved in different stages shapes one’s adult personality (Smith, 2013). He named the stages after erogenous zones that are capable of experiencing pleasure from the ...

Spring, 2016

I was raised in the conservative Christian family in the atmosphere of strict rules and respect toward elder people, especially toward parents. My mother is a nurse and my father is a pharmacist. I also have one younger and one elder brother. My parents raised me and my brothers using authoritative parental style. They were highly controlling and demanding and disciplined us for minor misconducts. However, I`m very glad that my parents were so strict, demanding and controlling they made me a good and respectful person. The theory of Skinner can be applied to how my parents raised ...

<Institution> Air, food, water, shelter, clothing – these are the basic things that humans need in order to live. However, there are other needs that must be met for the complete fulfilment of human existence. In 1943, Abraham Maslow proposed the Hierarchy of Needs, a five-stage model that shows the different needs that humans are motivated to achieve (McLeod, 2014). Based on this model, people are motivated to fulfil the lower level needs first before they desire to fulfill the higher level needs. This hierarchy begins with the biological and physiological needs, which includes “air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, ...

Human Development

Sigmund Freud is considered the father of Psychology owing to his immense contribution in the study of Psychology. Freud articulated the Psychosexual Theory of personality Development, which has gained much recognition worldwide by other psychologist. Freud argues that children are born with sexual energy that gets satisfied in different parts of the body as they grow. On the other hand, Erik Erikson, a German Psychologist proposed eight stages through which all individuals go through, and he called the stages Psychosocial Stages of Development, stages that he categorically termed ‘conflicts’. Resolution of one stage brings the foundation of negotiating the challenges ...