PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Libido, Maladaptation, Impulsivity
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Overview of part i: erik homburger erikson"s theory of psychosocial development. Anna frued was his therapist: the american: he left vienna and went to the us; he taught at. Yale and harvard and adopted a new name-> eric erickson. Fundamental eriksonian concepts www. notesolution. com: the epigenetic principle: there is a predetermined sequence of stages that everyone has to pass through as part of their development. Optimal time: it is crucial that we undertake each challenge at the right time; development cannot be stalled and it cannot be hurried. Virtue: a psychosocial strength that comes from having adequately addressed a psychosocial challenge. It must strike a balance between two tensions, ex. the goal was to fall in the middle; to have the perfect: triple bookkeeping: individual"s life must be understood on three complementary levels of analysis world. The ego: the individual"s conscious understanding of the www. notesolution. com. Family / society: challenges in the historical, societal and cultural context.
