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Sigmund Freud's Stages Of Childhood Development

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Later on Freud began focusing on the early development of children and how during each age, the child focuses his attention to a specific body part. He proposed that childhood development goes through stages and if a child does not fufill and leave one stage they become fixated to it. Freud was convinced that our personalities form in our first few years as we pass through a series of psychosexual stages. Here comes the unconsious part and the ID that seeks pleasure from our sensitive areas. First is the oral stage that starts from birth where libido is centred in baby's mouth through breastfeeding and putting all sorts of things in his mouth. Individuals who are fixated at this stage engage in overeating and smoking. Then comes the anal stage …show more content…

Anna's publication of “The Ego” was written while Stigmud was still alive. It became Anna's mission to build up the ego so it would be able to face the strikes of reality. She believed that anxiety builds up when the Ego looses control over the ID and Superego, so she proposed a series of defence mechanisms that reduces anxiety and help us cope with reality. Defence mechanisms are split into three categories; primitive, less mature and mature (Baumeister, Dale, & Sommer, …show more content…

In general psychoanalysts feel that psychotherapy works best at the point when the therapists concentrates on building up a relationship with the client and for the most part overlook the patient's past. They trust that in doing as such, therapists break clients out of the cycle of identifying with others that they believe keep psychopathology. Burch and Campbell (2013) pointed out that the psychoanalysts who still believe in the old school method are irrelevant today. The current era want a “quick fix” and they are merely forced to change ideas about the therapy they are providing. The unconscious has still has it's place in psychoanalytic therapy but now biological predispositions, early childhood experiences play a vital role on how to treat psychopathology. Fonagy (2003) clearly stated that now we tend to focus more on the brain functioning on how neurons develop in order individuals to form relationships and how they affects the clients

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