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PSYCHOSOCIAL THEORY

1. Freud Psycho-Sexual Theory
Oh, how sick can we go…

2. Freud Psycho-Sexual Theory
Dr. Sigmund Freud

3. Freud Psycho-Sexual Theory
•Freud proposed that there were 5 stages of
development.
•Believed that few people successfully
completed all 5 of the stages.
•Instead, he felt that most people tied up their
libido at one of the stages, which prevented
them from using that energy at a later stage.
•Believed that your personality was set by age
3.

4. Freud Psycho-Sexual Theory
•Libido means… sex drive.

5. ORAL STAGE
•Occurs from birth to about 1 year
•Libido is focused on the mouth
•Frustration from having to wait on another
person, being dependent on another
person.
•Being fixated at this stage may mean an
excessive use of oral stimulation, such as
cigarettes, drinking or eating.

6. Oral Fixation

7. ANAL STAGE
•Occurs about 18 months and 3 years.
•Individuals have their first encounter with
rules and regulations, as they have to
learn to be toilet trained.
•Will dictate the later behavior with rules
and regulations.

8. Anal Stage

9. ANAL STAGE

•Libido is focused anally
•Frustration may arise from having to learn a
somewhat complex cognitive and motor response.
•Fixation at this stage can result in stinginess,
stubbornness, or orderliness, as well as
messiness.
•Behavior related to retention and expulsion may
be related to experiences at this stage.

10. Can Cause Personality
Disorders…
–If child is not trained properly will lead to
negative outcomes:
•Leniency leads to: Anal-expulsive personality-- messy,
wasteful, or destructive.
•Strictness leads to:
Anal-retentive personality: stringent,
orderly, rigid, and obsessive.

11. PHALLIC STAGE
•About age 4-5 years.
•Critical episodes for development occur
during this stage
•Episodes occur differently for boys and
girls.

12. PHALLIC STAGE
•Oedipus Complex –
–the boy begins to have sexual desires for his mother
–sees his father as a rival for her affections.
–begins to fear that his father is suspicious of his longing
for his mother
–father will punish him for his desires.
–The punishment, the boy fears, will be castration, which
brings us to the second critical episode for this stage.
•Fight For Kisses

13. Oedipus conflict

14. PHALLIC STAGE
•Castration anxiety.
–fear of castration make the boy anxious
–leads to the boy thinking that the father hates him
eventually becomes unbearable
–boy renounces his sexual feelings for his mother and
chooses instead to identify with his father
–hopes to someday have a relationship with a woman
(though not his mother) just like dear old dad has with
his mother.

15. PHALLIC STAGE
•Girls = slightly different story
–oral and anal stages are the same for both girls and
boys, so the focus of affection and attention is on the
mother for both.
–focus changes, for girls, from the mother to the father,
when the girls realize that they don't have penises, so
they develop penis envy.
–coupled with the knowledge that her mother doesn't
have a penis leads to her thinking her mother
unworthy, and becoming attracted to her father, as he
does have a penis.

16. PHALLIC STAGE
•Just as with boys, girls begin to suspect
the same sex parent knows about their
attraction to the opposite sex parent
•Believe the mom hates them for it.
•Electra Complex.
–Feelings go round and round for awhile until
the point when the girls renounce their
feelings for their fathers
–Identify with their mothers.

17. Identify With Mother

18. LATENCY STAGE
•Period occurs after the Oedipus conflict
has been resolved
•Feelings that were aroused during that
time have subsided
•From about the age of 7 until puberty
•Period of rest where there are no
developmental events

19. Latency Stage

20. GENITAL STAGE
•Begins at puberty
•Involves the development of the genitals,
and libido begins to be used in its sexual
role.
•Feelings for the opposite sex are a source
of anxiety,
•Reminders of the feelings for the parents
and the trauma that resulted

21. Genital Stage

22. Psychosexual Development
Activity
•Oh no! You are on an internship with a local
psychologist. She has asked you to file five
folders, but you have dropped them and all of
the papers have spilled out.
•Your psychologist studies from the
psychodynamic perspective. She believes that
people’s feelings and behaviors can be
explained by exploring their childhood
experiences.

23. Bad Intern!
•Your psychologist is theorizing that these five
patients have unresolved conflicts in one of
Freud’s five psychosexual stages.
•The files are marked with the specific
psychosexual stage.
•You must use the sticky notes and the patient
information provided to make your guess for
each patient.
•Remember that your job is riding on this!

24. Match the Patient with the
Stage of Conflict.
•Patient #1 – Bob can’t stop cheating on his wife. He has
continuously gone to therapy and regrets each time he betrays her.
•Patient #2 – Jennie has no friends that are girls. She claims, when
asked, that they don’t understand her and she can’t be friends with
them. Jennie has attached herself to all male friends.
•Patient #3 – Vivian is an alcoholic. She has lost the last three jobs
she occupied due to her inability to come to work sober.
•Patient #4 – Rebecca can be obsessive at times. She likes all of her
items on her desk at work and home to be in specific places. If her
children move an item from her desk, she becomes aggressive in
insisting that they return the item to where they found it immediately.

25. Which patient fits with which
stage?
•Patient #1 – Latency Stage
•Patient #2 – Phallic Stage
•Patient #3 – Oral Stage
•Patient #4 – Anal Stage