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Grief Cycle…and Psycho-sexual Development. Elizabeth Kubler -Ross. Shock. Your life is going well and you are not prepared for turmoil. The natural reaction is shock. Denial. Try to avoid the inevitable The Doctor must be wrong…. It could not be her car…. Anger.
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Shock • Your life is going well and you are not prepared for turmoil. • The natural reaction is shock.
Denial • Try to avoid the inevitable • The Doctor must be wrong…. • It could not be her car…
Anger • This anger can be taken out on anything or anyone • Why her? • There can’t be a god…..
Bargaining • God if you do this….I will go to church every week. • Please take me instead….. • If you will just give me one more month…..
Testing • Seek realistic solutions • Utilize all possible treatments
Acceptance • Find a way forward • You may not like it, but you deal with it • Look on the positive side
Sticking and cycling • There is no time frame • Some are stuck in stages longer than others • A person can not be jolted out of a stage by someone else • You may return to a stage do to a trigger
Intro to Freud….. • Freud believe that our personality is made up of the id, ego and super ego (we will discuss this later) • Because of this theory he believe that most of “who we are” is formed at a young age • Much of his psychosexual theory has been discounted…but it is kind of interesting • We have accepted many of his terms in our venacular
Oral stage Birth -18 mo. • An infant finds pleasure through the mouth • Ex. Nursing • If an infant wants to explore something it immediately goes to the mouth. • Have you heard of an “oral fixation?”
Anal Stage18 mo.-3 years • Toddler finds pleasure in controlling his or her bowels. • There are few things a toddler can produce….. • My nephews loved to say..”Aunt Nicole, do you want to see…… • Have you ever been called anal?
Phallic Stage3-6 • Can you guess where they find pleasure? • This is the stage of the Oedipus complex and/or the Electra complex
Final two stages not as important to Freud Children explore and realize the difference between sexes • People begin to repress events in each of the stages and personalities form Latency 6-12 Genital 12 on up