Freud began his professional career as a neurologist working with mentally ill patients. It was from his observations and studies of individuals with mental health problems that psychoanalysis was born. Many of his findings relied heavily on evidence obtained from…
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What causes a person to become a criminal? Who is to blame? Most people like to put the blame on the parents. Many of us have heard the expressions, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, or they’re a…
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Renowned psychologist Erik Erikson spent much of his life observing and theorizing the psychosocial development in humans. Erikson noted that a man, in order to fully develop his psychosocial behavior, should pass each of the eight stages of psychosocial development…
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Sigmund Freud is one of the most celebrated psychoanalysts of all time. His personality theory delved into the unconscious and produced revolutionary ideas that changed psychology forever. His work appears in scholarly research into modern times and contains a multi-faceted…
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Have you ever had a dream where something happened that made you realize you were dreaming? Maybe it was seeing a person you had not seen in years, taking a turn in your home and finding yourself looking at a…
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Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist, who was born in 1896 and died in 1980. His constructivist cognitive developmental theory is among the best known and most influential approaches to the development of human intellectual capacities. It has made its…
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The Personality Theory developed by Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is the bedrock upon which the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry was founded. Working theories of human development, behavior, psychopathology, and clinical treatment stemmed from his understanding of personality. Although some of…
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Jean Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory revolutionized how human development is viewed, influencing teaching methods, and deepening human understanding about the subject. Piaget recognized that people go through stages of learning, or personal evolution, as they grow, and that these stages…
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Panic Anxiety Disorder, also known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), is described as sudden and severe episodes of intense feelings and symptoms that can physically and mentally overcome the affected person. These sensations reach their peak within a couple minutes…
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Learned helplessness affects people in many ways, for many different reasons. In older folks, learned helplessness can be mistaken for many other memory associated diseases consistent with growing old. This is especially true for old folks who are hospitalized. They…
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