One of Sigmund Freud’s most well known contributions is his development of psychoanalysis. The word psychoanalysis refers to his theory of how the mind works and the different levels of awareness, and also the treatment method he thought were best for the mind (Psychoanalysis, n.d.). Freud believed that behavior and personality are formed from the interaction of three different levels of awareness. The three levels are the conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious (Cherry, n.d.). The conscious is the part of the mind that is in our awareness and includes our thoughts in the present. The preconscious is the level that consists of information that is not in our immediate awareness but is still retrievable from our memory and the unconscious
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The stages are supposed to be completed in a particular order and the idea is that you either complete the stage of development successfully and develop a healthy personality or result in failure and develop an unhealthy personality (Heffner, n.d.). Some reasons for failure in a psychosexual stage according to Freud’s theory are, frustration which occurs when the needs of the individual is not met in the specific psychosexual stage. Opposite of that, if the individual is so well satisfied and gets more than enough of what they need in that stage, than that causes overindulgence. Both overindulgence and frustration can in turn cause fixation, which means that the child is stuck at that psychosexual stage. The five stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages. In each of these stages, the child has different erogenous zones to seek pleasure and release tension such as the mouth in the oral stage, and so on (McLeod, 2016). Basically it seems that Freud thought there was only a specific way to raise a child and you had to be perfect at it, no more and no less of anything or that would result in your child developing an “unhealthy” …show more content…
Although many of his theories were determined non-scientific because there was no way to actually observe most of them and and some of them were just wrong, but SOME of them did open doors to the field. His development of psychoanalysis therapy is not particularly popular anymore but there are treatment therapies such as talk therapy and even cognitive behavioral therapy that are similar and might have derived from the original idea that Freud had. I do not know that for certain, but they both seem to have a similar goal, which is talking to the patient and encouraging them to open up about repressed feelings. And with that being said, we might have never had any conversation about the unconscious mind because Freud is the first one to actually dive into the idea of the unconscious mind and seek to know more about it and seek to learn more about how people think. Although the unconscious part of the mind is something we can’t observe scientifically, it does seem to exist and is something we acknowledge today. Another theory that Freud had that is debatable and controversial is Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. Most people, including myself, do not think his stages are necessary or valid for becoming a developed, healthy adult but he was on to something in my opinion. He got the conversation going about figuring out how personality is formed and made a connection between
The stages are supposed to be completed in a particular order and the idea is that you either complete the stage of development successfully and develop a healthy personality or result in failure and develop an unhealthy personality (Heffner, n.d.). Some reasons for failure in a psychosexual stage according to Freud’s theory are, frustration which occurs when the needs of the individual is not met in the specific psychosexual stage. Opposite of that, if the individual is so well satisfied and gets more than enough of what they need in that stage, than that causes overindulgence. Both overindulgence and frustration can in turn cause fixation, which means that the child is stuck at that psychosexual stage. The five stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages. In each of these stages, the child has different erogenous zones to seek pleasure and release tension such as the mouth in the oral stage, and so on (McLeod, 2016). Basically it seems that Freud thought there was only a specific way to raise a child and you had to be perfect at it, no more and no less of anything or that would result in your child developing an “unhealthy” …show more content…
Although many of his theories were determined non-scientific because there was no way to actually observe most of them and and some of them were just wrong, but SOME of them did open doors to the field. His development of psychoanalysis therapy is not particularly popular anymore but there are treatment therapies such as talk therapy and even cognitive behavioral therapy that are similar and might have derived from the original idea that Freud had. I do not know that for certain, but they both seem to have a similar goal, which is talking to the patient and encouraging them to open up about repressed feelings. And with that being said, we might have never had any conversation about the unconscious mind because Freud is the first one to actually dive into the idea of the unconscious mind and seek to know more about it and seek to learn more about how people think. Although the unconscious part of the mind is something we can’t observe scientifically, it does seem to exist and is something we acknowledge today. Another theory that Freud had that is debatable and controversial is Freud’s psychosexual stages of development. Most people, including myself, do not think his stages are necessary or valid for becoming a developed, healthy adult but he was on to something in my opinion. He got the conversation going about figuring out how personality is formed and made a connection between