Anna Freud

Personality development can be explained through a psychoanalytic approach using the theories of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who treated patients with mental illness. He was a great thinker that developed numerous psychological theories that had their fair share of controversy. Freud believed human behavior was due to the interaction between the id, ego, and superego; the three components of personality. The id is the source of the inherited, instinctual drives known…

Freud created many contributions to Psychology. Among those contributions is a famous theorem known as the theory of personality. The theory of personality can be broken down into three parts, the id, the superego, and the ego. It’s what Freud believes what shapes a person’s personality. The id is what satisfies the minds basic urges and needs. It’s the part that thinks unconsciously, meaning it would make someone do something without thinking about the consequence of that action. The superego…

Psychodynamic perspective is when the unconscious mind has influence over conscious behavior, which impacts early childhood experiences with emphasis on development of a sense of self, social, and interpersonal relationships, and the discovery of other motivations behind a person’s behavior. From this perspective, Qing might be troubled subconsciously which affects her conscious mind, making her withdrawn and moody. While on the outside she seems fine, subconsciously, she might be nervous in her…

Psychodynamic therapy originated as a divergence from psychoanalytic therapy and theory when Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung disagreed on multiple elements of theory and how therapy should be conducted. Jung did not agree with Freud’s belief that sexuality was the main motivational principle for human beings. Jung also felt Freud was mistaken regarding a lack of importance based on spiritual and transpersonal elements of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory (Safran & Kriss, 2014, p. 28). These…

To every paranormal experience, there are two sides; the truth of the person who has experienced it and the truth of the event itself. Each experience comes with its own history of what had led to it, along with the significance behind it. Although there are strong cultural aspects to a spiritual experience, specifically spiritual possession, anthropologist Obeyesekere’s case study shows the importance of understanding the psychological causes as well, if not more. In his work, Obeyesekere…

Antonio’s ‘Looking Glass Self’ influence by Agents of Socialization The theory of looking glass self was developed by Charles H. Cooley in 1902. In this theory, Cooley explains how the people around us affect living behaviors. In this regard, the theory of looking glass self can be used to explain the desire of Antonio to change his bullying behavior. According to Cooley, when an individual identifies what other people think about him/her, it may bring about feelings of self-doubt and…

Haruki Murakami’s novel “Norwegian wood” contains elements of violence and mental illness. The story treats mental illness as a natural part of life.In Japan,mental illness is considered to be caused by a weakness in personality rather than a biological dysfunction.This ideology stigmatizes mental health(introduce reference?).Stigmatization is identified by three factors: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.Murakami explores the tension between these conflicting ideas though the characters in the…

What Does It Mean When You Dream About Your Crush? Kw: dream about your crush Meta: As you wake up, you struggle to remember the dream about your crush. Why did it happen? Is your crush thinking about you? It is estimated that the average person dreams 5 to 10 times every night. Many people do not realize that they dream because they were too tired to recall the dream or they woke up at the wrong stage of sleep to really remember it. If you are like most people, you have had a dream about…

In Intellect:Mind over Matter, Mortimer Adler probes the relationship between the mind and the body. He describes the four main theories regarding this relationship and separates them into two categories: extreme and moderate. Among the four theories, Adler argues in favor of moderate immaterialism. His argument is easily the most convincing as it accounts for the essential difference between man and animal, our intellect, while acknowledging the congruity between the mind and body. The extreme…

An archetype; a very typical example of a certain person or thing. In the early 20th century, a Swiss Psychiatrist named Carl Jung suggested that there exists ways to communicate certain experiences and emotions. With this being said, he created a universal and recognizable way to organize distinct behaviours into 12 different groups in which he named archetypes. Each person should be able to title themselves as at least one of them. Up to this date, many other philosophers have established…