Describe the process in which Freud theorized how a person could become delinquent. Be sure to identify all the concepts and elements. Also, list the work of other psychologists who have taken the insights of psychoanalysis
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The answer should include the following points:
Sigmund Freud—psychoanalytic theory
- psychoanalytic theory—three insights shaped the handling of juvenile delinquents
- three components of personality—id, ego, and superego
- three psychosexual stages of development—oral, anal, and phallic
- person’s personality traits develop in early childhood
- emotional traumas experienced in childhood—lifelong psychological problems
Other Freudian psychologists:
- psychiatrist William Healy—mental conflicts originating in unsatisfactory family relationships
- psychoanalyst August Aichhorn—conflictual nature of family relationships and adolescents’ transfer of their hatred to other authority figures
- psychiatrist Kate Friedlander—antisocial characteristics in the personality due to disturbed ego development in early childhood
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