PSY 402 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ego Psychology, Identity Formation, Attachment In Adults
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Psy402 chapter 8 personality // textbook notes. Freud"s approach, psychodynamic perspecive , emphasizes the ways in which the unconscious moives and impulses express themselves in people"s personaliies and behaviour. Current theories of adult development and personality based on this theory coninue to emphasize freudian ideas as the importance of early development and ways in which people cope with such emoions as fear, anxiety, and love. Freud claims that personality doesn"t changes ater early childhood (age 5). He thought therapy ater age 50 had litle value (thinks adults are incapable of change) Freudian theory today as applied to adult development divides into 3 main branches: ego psychology, theory of defence mechanisms, adult atachment theory. The mind is made up of 3 structures: the id (biological insincts), the ego, the superego (atempts to control the id"s irraional insincts) The ego is part of the mind that controls raional thought.
