Monday, February 21, 2011

Psychology - Evolution

Read Sigmund Freud

Freud redefined sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life, developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association, created the theory of transference in the therapeutic relationship, and interpreted dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires.


He theorized that personality is developed by a person's childhood experiences.

In 1905, Freud published Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality in which he laid out his discovery of so-called psychosexual phases: oral (ages 0–2), anal (2-4), phallic-oedipal (today called 1st genital) (3-6), latency (6-puberty), and mature genital (puberty-onward). 

In 1923, he presented his new "structural theory" of an id, ego, and superego in a book entitled, The Ego and the Id.Therein, he revised the whole theory of mental functioning, now considering that repression was only one of many defense mechanisms, and that it occurred to reduce anxiety. Note that repression, for Freud, is both a cause of anxiety and a response to anxiety
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Maslow theory
Abraham Maslow's theory is one of the most widely discussed theories. Desires which influence them
physiological -) Safety -) Love -) Esteem -) Actualization(creativity, problem solving)

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