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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