Three Modern forces, Psychodynamic, Humanistic-existential, and Behavioral take different approaches to understanding personality, each with their own key concepts and therapeutic implications. For each of the modern forces, several different theorists developed their own ideologies regarding some of the same basic assumptions. Many post-modern theories have been derived from these basic modern forces.
Psychodynamic: Sigmund Freud Freud was a founder of Psychoanalytic theory. This theory was developed from Freud’s thoughts on the unconscious, free association and other therapeutic techniques, psychosexual development, and defense mechanisms. Freud developed three states of awareness, conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious. A person’s conscious is fully aware. The conscious is aware of person’s behaviors and the changing environments around …show more content…
He also developed the five stages of psychosexual development, which include the oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage. In the oral stage, newborn to two years of age, children experience the world through their mouths by sucking. In the anal stage, children ages two to three learn to control their elimination of body waste, potty training. Next, from the ages of three to five, children begin to become jealous of the same sex parent. For example, the son becomes sexually attracted to his mother and views his father as the obstacle in the way. The latency stage follows the phallic stage. In this stage, sexual drive is low. It is found that boys and girls usually remain separated and prefer to be around those of the same sex. Lastly, around the age of 11 or 12 the children will enter the last stage, the genital stage. At this point, children are entering puberty. The sexual drives return, but this time the drive is appropriately directed to realistic
Psychodynamic: Sigmund Freud Freud was a founder of Psychoanalytic theory. This theory was developed from Freud’s thoughts on the unconscious, free association and other therapeutic techniques, psychosexual development, and defense mechanisms. Freud developed three states of awareness, conscious, pre-conscious, and unconscious. A person’s conscious is fully aware. The conscious is aware of person’s behaviors and the changing environments around …show more content…
He also developed the five stages of psychosexual development, which include the oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage. In the oral stage, newborn to two years of age, children experience the world through their mouths by sucking. In the anal stage, children ages two to three learn to control their elimination of body waste, potty training. Next, from the ages of three to five, children begin to become jealous of the same sex parent. For example, the son becomes sexually attracted to his mother and views his father as the obstacle in the way. The latency stage follows the phallic stage. In this stage, sexual drive is low. It is found that boys and girls usually remain separated and prefer to be around those of the same sex. Lastly, around the age of 11 or 12 the children will enter the last stage, the genital stage. At this point, children are entering puberty. The sexual drives return, but this time the drive is appropriately directed to realistic