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    Freud's Oral stage and the result of delayed weaning can be seen in my personality. At the age of three I was finally forced to give up my bottle. My mother tells the story of how I put my bottles in the trash can to be picked up. Of course I willingly put it there as I was given a perfectly reasonable choice. “Would you like to put your ba ba in the trash now, or in five minutes?” After five minutes the bottles were in the trash and I sat on the porch waiting for the garbage collector to arrive. I waved goodbye to my bottles and that was the end of it. This late weaning from the oral stage can be seen as oral aggressive. What words are used to describe me? Sarcasm, cynical, and contemptuous would top the list. I smoked for many years, to the detriment of my dental health I chew ice on a regular basis. Oral sex is not on the list, which is seen as a common…

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    Oral health is a major element in the overall health of an individual. Without the proper dental care poor hygiene can lead to various health problems. Children with decayed teeth are more risk to have a lower body weight by 80% compared to the ideal weight of children their age (Acs, 1992). There are four stages that can impact a adolescents oral health. Stage two which is where the primary teeth have all erupted. The dental care during this time is very important and can set how the permanent…

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    are Erickson’s Theory, Piaget’s Theory, and Freud’s Theory. Erickson developed a psychosocial theory with emphasis on social experiences and stages of human development. During infancy there is a basic trust versus mistrust. Infants develop a basic form of trust at such a young age. Infants learn…

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    In 1905 Freud came up with four psychosexual stages of development that help shape a persons personality throughout infancy and adulthood. As a person goes through each stage, they are faced with frustration, pleasure, or both that will ultimately shape them for the rest of their life. The first of four stages occurs when people are infants, 0-1 years old. This first stage is known as the oral stage because the libido - sexual energy - is centered in the baby’s mouth. We can see this…

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    Joubert’s CRM3303 B, Winter 2017. Internal and relational dynamics John seems to be trapped in the oral stage of the psychosexual development. This is a stage of dependency and gratification. The person relies on a care-giver to gratify all their needs, both physical and emotional. During this stage, children must learn to become more dependent, or they may develop a fixation, which will later affect adult life. If an oral fixation occurs, these people may develop problems of dependency and…

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    Alcohol plays a huge role in my life. I see the people that I love controlled by it every day. It can be linked with many different things. Alcohol can be caused either genetically or from environments that surround the victim. Based on Freud’s Structural Model addiction can be caused from psychosexual or psychoanalysis. According to Freud addicts are they way they are because of the oral fixation, which is a result of the first stage in psychosexual. As stated by many different sources and…

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    In this way, he focussed on the effect that childhood could have on the development of a person as an adult. Psychosexual stages of development were utilised to describe the stages of development a person goes through from birth to adulthood. The stages of psychosexual development were as follows: oral, anal and phallic. Each stage represents the fixation of libido on a different area of the body. As a person grows physically certain areas of their body become important as sources of potential…

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    wants and urges and if we don’t get them then we become sad or depressed. This helps us not think about the unpleasant things. For example, always going to hunger, thirst, and sex. Freud said that we should follow the pleasure principle but we should follow the reality principle. In the reality principle there is good and bad adaptation and the bad adaptations he would call neuroses. Even things that we don 't remember doing from being an infant affects us and how we behave. Freud had a theory…

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    Psychodynamic theory, in correlation to object-relations therapy, could be employed to identify, and thoroughly inquire into, the strengths and challenges associated with Dandy. Evaluative Picture Strengths High SES. Dandy is the only child of Gloria Mott, a wealthy heiress descended from generations of aristocratic refinement. He and his subservient mother live in obscene wealth, and work hard to uphold the hidden values affiliated with the upper class economic group. According to Sigmund…

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    exposure in the forms of reality anxieties, neurotic anxieties or moral anxieties. To this Freud said that the mind creates defense mechanisms, procedures to ward off these anxieties and to prevent the conscious perception of it. Accordingly, one will unconsciously create those defenses and deny or distort reality to make it less threatening through repression. Repression refers to the blocking of wishes so that it will not be consciously experienced or expressed directly in behavior. Therefore,…

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