Autocracy

This is a case study about Dave (FYI: all names including the student, parents, teachers, and administrator(s) have been changed to protect anonymity and confidentiality for all parties). Dave is an 11th grade student enrolled in several honors courses. He has been labeled as a gifted/talented student by his school district. He is 16 years old and is African-American. Dave is and has been actively involved in extra-curricular activities most notably band. He appears normal physically with no…

Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud’s theory of psychological development described how the personality developed over the course of childhood. While the theory is well-known in psychology, it is also one of the most controversial. Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous zones. This psychosexual energy – “libido” – was posited as one of the basic primal…