CHAPTER 3 MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

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CHAPTER 3MALADAPTIVE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
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CHAPTER 3

• ORAL STAGE
• SCHIZOPHRENIADUE TO AN INDIVIDUAL FAILING TO
  DEVELOP A CLEAR DISTINTION BETWEEN A SENSE OF
  SELF AND REALITY THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED WHILE
  PASSING SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH THE ORAL STAGE.
• ANAL STAGE
• OBESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDERSCAUSED BY STRICT
  AND EXCESSIVE TOILET TRAINING DURING THE ANAL
  STAGE.
• PHALLIC STAGE
• MULTIPLE-PERSONALITY DISORDEREXSTENSIVE
  REPRESSION OF SEXUAL URGES WITHIN THE EXISTING
  PERSONALITY. CANNOT ACCEPT AND EXPRESS THESE
  URGES.
• CONVERSION DISORDER(HYPOCHONDRIAC)UNACEPTABLE
  SEXUAL AND AGGRESSIVE FEELING, REPRESSED BY THE
  SUPEREGO

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• EVALUATION OF THE PSYCHODYNAMIC VIEWPOINTS
• STRENGTHS
• COMPREHENSIVENESS OF THEORY FREUD SAID IT ALL.
• INTERNAL CONSISTENCY OF THE PSYCHODYNAMIC
  VIEWPOINT FITTING THE PIECES TOGETHER.
• ATTENTION TO COMPLEW BEHAVIOR CREATING A NEW
  POINT OF VIEW
• FUNCTIONAL UTILITY GETTING THE BALL ROLLING.
• FREUD AS AN OBSERVER MAKING SENSE OUT OF THE
  SENSLESS.

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• LIMITATIONS
• THE PSYCHODYNAMIC VIEW OF THE INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE
  ARENT ALL THAT BAD.
• AMBIGUOUS TERMS AND EXPLANATIONS DEFINITION
  DIFFUCULTIES.
• OBSERVABLE BIASES CAN YOU REALLY BELIEVE WHAT
  YOU ARE HEARING
• METHODOLGICAL PROBLEMS SHORTCOMINGS IN THE
  TOOLS USED TO BUILD THE THEORY.
• FREUD VS. FEMINISM WS FREUD A SEXIST?