Emma Culloty BIRMI2A 11 Evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of psychosexual development can help us to understand a Client’s presenting issue. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development is a theory that has caused a large amount of debate and can be seen as quite a contentious issue, particularly when using this theory to try and understand a client’s presenting issue. This essay will look into Freud’s psychosexual theory and will describe how it relates to adult neurotic behaviour. The essay will then look at the critiques of Carl Jung and Erich Fromm and will look at the ideas surrounding Jung’s collective consciousness and Fromm’s view based on a sociological perspective, where the person is able to decide for them and how problems can arise for a client when this does not happen. This essay will also look at the role of women and homosexuality and discuss whether Freud’s views where based on a cultural prejudice when he devised the psychosexual theory.
Central to Freud's theory, and perhaps his greatest contribution to psychology, is the notion that our psyche is composed of parts within our awareness and beyond our awareness. Freud used the term psychoanalysis to label his theories and techniques for identifying and curing the mental problems of his patients. This essay will outline the main concepts that surround Freud’s theory of psychosexual development, thus showing how it can help us understand our clients presenting issues. In order for me to do this I will firstly describe the psychosexual stages in relation to personality development followed by briefly identifying some of the main criticisms. I will lastly concentrate on discussing the applications of his theory to therapy today.
In this paper I shall introduce Sigmund Freud’s theories of human development within psychoanalysis and describe how his theory of psychosexual development related to adult neurosis. I shall offer some criticisms of this theory and evaluate how this may aid a present day counsellor in their practice. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was a Viennese physician who developed his theory of human development by trying to help emotionally troubled adults. He was attempting from the start of his career to formulate a system of psychological therapy and was influenced by the psychological thought of the time and the cultural influences of that era, which were of Victorian moral standards and the presence of war in Europe. Freud’s theories broadly encompassed the issues of life, sex and aggression.
“Evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of Psychosexual Development can help us to understand a client’s presenting issue?” In this essay I am asked to evaluate one aspect of Freudian theory. I will begin by first describing Freud’s psychosexual theory and demonstrate an understanding of its relationship to adult neurotic behaviour. Having done this I will examine some of the criticisms that have been levelled at Freudian theory in order to evaluate it. In 1905 Freud published ‘Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality and other Works’, one of those essays was titled ‘Infantile Sexuality’. In this essay Freud sets out his theory of psychosexual development.
Expensive but inflexible buildings became overcrowded, and by 1890 the majority of patients left only in coffins. Old techniques returned - straitjackets, seclusion and sedative drugs such as bromides were used on unruly patients. Controversies and legacies In the first half of the 1900s asylums (or ‘mental hospitals’) became testing grounds for controversial treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and lobotomy. These methods helped some patients function again, but they irreparably harmed others. Such therapies became widely used because doctors and nurses wanted to offer patients cutting-edge treatment.
Sigmund Freud and the Psychoanalytic Theory Nobody knows for sure why we act the way we do and there are many different theories to a human’s personality. Who drives a rapist or a murderer? What triggers us to subconsciously fall in love? Sigmund Freud breaks down our character into three different elements: Id, Ego, and Superego in his influential psychoanalytical theory. Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) went to medical school in Vienna – the world capital of medicine - in 1873.
To what extent does Freud’s theory of psychosexual development help us to understand the way that a persons personality develops in relation to their childhood experiences? Psychologist Sigmund Freud did various researches into psychosexual development. While doing research into the physical symptoms of hysteria on women, he discovered talking to patients helped them to relax, thus aiding their physical symptoms. While talking to his patients, it became apparent that a recurring theme was talk of sexual abuse in their childhood. This resulted in Freud doing further research into psychosexual development and caused Freud to believe that personality develops through a series of childhood stages.
However before Freud, there were other theories concerning psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud formulated his own theory of psychoanalysis in Vienna in the 1890s but before that, Freud was a neurologist interested in neurotic or hysterical patients and helping to find a treatment. He had become aware of the existence of mental processes that were not conscious as a result of his neurological consulting job at the Children's Hospital. He started to write about it and his first theory to explain hysterical symptoms was presented in Studies in Hysteria (1895), co-authored with Josef Breuer. As he became increasingly interested he received permission to study in Paris in the 1880s with Jean- Martin Charcot, a famous neurologist and syphilogist.
In the early 20th century mental health professionals took an interest in the artwork being created by psychologically sick patients. Art therapy is a new type of instrument being used in counseling field when traditional “talk theory” is not supporting the client-patient relationship successful in counseling sessions. (Rubin, J., A., 2010, pp. 64 - 66). Visual expression is not new to the progress of managing mentally ill patients it was used in the olden times for healing.
8- Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) a. Write down an outline of the narrative and characters of Metamorphosis. b. How does the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis help us to analyze the tragedy of Gregor