Ego Course Works Samples For Students

The formation of an individual’s character refers to the process where an individual develops into the person that they are. The development of this person constitutes of formation of enduring patterns of thinking behavior and feeling. The development of these patterns is because of adaptations to the internal and external instincts, external demands for conformity and the need for balance between the instinctual demands and the external demands for conformity. These are known as the id, the super ego and the ego. (Freud, 1938)

The formation of the character of a person follows these three parameters where the id ...

Introduction

Personality structures

Sigmund Freud has been one of the famous theorists in the study of psychology. Freud has been vibrant in his attempt to explain the personality concept of human beings. Freud asserts that there exist three different structures of personality to include the Id, the Ego and the Super Ego structures. The Id is the source of instincts and impulses; it always seeks an immediate unconscious satisfaction of the individual biological needs. It is also the unconscious structure which is a major source of the psychic energy. The Ego represents the mental structure which adapts to the reality and ...

There are several theories that can be used to explain the antisocial behavior that shows the progression from juvenile to adult criminality. The subject can be said to be in connection to deviance, juvenile deviance, as well as criminal deviance. Deviance refers to certain behaviors that are contrary to social expectations or standards of conduct of a given society or a group. Juvenile deviance, on the other hand, refers to the antisocial behavior shown by the youths. These include the violation of juvenile laws as well as delinquent actions affecting the society and criminal acts. Lastly, criminal deviance can be explained ...

Introduction

Many people have largely ignored child development that often occurs from birth to when the child reaches adulthood. Many people in history viewed children as small adults and thus paid little attention to the many changes in children including cognitive abilities, learning and physical growth. People started being interested in the field of child development in the early 20th century after theorists began giving their views. It is important to understand child development in order to determine the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and educational growth that children go through from birth to mature adults. Child development theories provide an ...

1). Me: Describe your life and work in the field of psychology.

Sigmund Freud: Although I was born in Frieberg, Moravia, my family moved to Frieberg when I was just four years old and I spent most of my life there. Before joining the Gymnasium secondary school, I was homeschooled by my parents. From 1873 to 1881, I studied at the University of Vienna after graduation and graduated from the university with a doctorate degree in medicine (Jones, 1981). After that I worked and made a name for myself as a physician. I gained an interest in hysteria while working at the ...

Introduction:

The individual nominated for this life-story interview is AJ. He is a family friend who was born in Alexandria in Egypt. He was born on the ninth day of November in the year 1956 thus making him 54 years old. He currently resides in Waterbury, CT with his wife of 19 years. He is also blessed with three children with whom He lives with: 16 years old, 12 years old, and 10 years old. However, unfortunately, he could have had four children since he lost a daughter at a tender age of 4 days and if she were alive today, she could ...

In the Context of human and personality development, the role of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories cannot be underrated. The psychoanalytic theory seeks to explain the personality of an individual by analyzing the various psychosexual stages involved during their personal development. Central to the theories of psychoanalytic are the efforts of Sigmund Fred who proposed that people mostly operates from three distinct states of being: the id which seeks self-gratification; the superego which seeks to do what is morally right; and the ego, the rational mediator between id and the superego (Fred, 2011). These theories are vital in defining the ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Sigmund Freud developed the theory that the human personality is made up of the id, ego, and superego. He theorized that the id makes up the primitive component while the ego operates as the mediator between the id and reality and the superego is the moral component of a human’s personality. Freud also developed the theory of psychosexual development based upon Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles.

Today it is referred to as the Electra Complex for girls the Oedipus Complex for boys.
Psychosexual development is divided into five stages which are oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Freud ...

Human Behavior: Lying

Lying is one of the most common human behaviors with many people terming it as wrong but necessary at times. Lying can be described as a form of deception, and has three main features: a lie has to communicate some information; the liar has to have the intention to mislead or deceive and; the liar is aware that he or she is telling a lie (BBC, 2013). Therefore, lying does not have to communicate false information, but it is the intention of the liar to deceive by giving false information that constitutes lying. But what motivates lying?

Humanistic theory of motivation illustrated ...

There are three grand theories providing theoretical framework for studying human development: psychoanalytic theory, behaviorism and cognitive theory.

The fundamental concepts of the psychoanalytic theory are the underlying forces (inner drives, mental and emotional processes, motives) shaping the personality, behavior, thinking, attitude, decision making, etc. Central to this theory, introduced by Sigmund Freud, is a point of view that a individual in his or her development passes through specific psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital. Ericson, who also contributed to the psychoanalytic theory, offered different classification of development stages. Each stage has its unique needs, motivation drivers, challenges and relationships. According to Freud, people act from three major states of the ...

Discuss some of the key ideas, people, and consequences associated with theories of evolution (focusing on Darwin).I. Intro and Background
Darwin started researching on the evolution of animals and plants and was motivated by the fact that other creatures were able to survive while others could not. For this reason, competition for various elements that are specific to the growth and expansion of the population are the basis for evolution. This article will therefore try and establish the facts behind Darwin’s findings.

Malthus and competition

Malthus fronts the fact that, in every system that contains living organism, evolution in ...

How does the human conscious and unconscious mind and the external bio-social forces adapt in the process of development? What then is the role and significance of psychoanalysis? Researchers in the field of neuroscience have made great findings on the effect of the biopsychosocial perspective on child development. They have already accentuated on the fact that the interaction of infants with their neurobiological predisposition and interpersonal social and environmental experiences influences the development of the psyche, a concept earlier on stated by Freud in his ‘Project for Scientific Psychology’ (Sasso 2009). The development of consciousness is evidently a complex process ...

Response 1

In response 1, the student does try to explain how the author of the article approaches counseling. He is keen to note that the author somewhat adopts a holistic approach which incorporates a little bit of everything. However, Dr. Thomas does not necessarily adopt a holistic approach. Rather, he tends to employ different approaches in different settings. He observes “the approaches I employ include psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, Jungian and other humanistic approaches” (Thomas, 2008). The author does acknowledge that not a single approach can work for everyone but rather approaches should be tailor-made to suit the different people. The response fails to ...

Introduction

Theories by definition are guesses and conjunctures about a particular idea and the means to prove its validity, facts are presented to support the theory through research and practical applications. At certain point theories becomes the subject of debate when the underlying principles of the theory are challenged due to the weak spots and holes found in its context. Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory is not so different from the rest of other theories that are in question due to their limitations. Psychoanalytic theory was built upon the perception that people exerts resistance when being enforced to be conscious of his ...

It has been a common notion about the existence of self. You are exactly who you look at yourself to be. The theory of personal identity revolves around the questions ‘What am I?’, ‘When did I begin?’ and‘What will take place after I die?’. The major questions that are posed by or own inner selves are what exactly strive to define who we are. Human Beings are constantly faced with the questions coming from their conscience. They are always trying to ‘figure out who they are’. The subject of personal identity has been of considerable interest ...

Ego and value conflicts overlap in a healthcare workplace causing hostility and conflict between the healthcare workers. For example, in nursing, it is noted that conflicts arise out of everyday behavioural patterns like the ways managers treat the nurses in situations. Egos often get bruised because of public confrontations or displays of hostilities. Healthcare professionals also harbour values and principals of their own with regard to patient care which might lead to difference of opinion with their co-workers which in turn reflects as ego clashes, thereby affecting overall performance of a team.
Compromising and collaboration are the most effective ways ...

Interpersonal Process Recording

Description of Environment: Cafeteria in the inpatient unit

Description of Client (including affect): Male /84 years old/ feels anxious and sad/ poor concentration/ blank affect/ poor insight judgment/soft speech/previous history of depression/recently came back from California.

Antecedent Events:
Pt admitted for ECT treatment. Pt previously received treatment in February 2011, but had minimal success. He feels highly anxious, avoids social interaction and has stopped eating. “I am depressed and I do not care about life anymore”. Patient has a history of depression 13 years ago.

Nursing Objective(s):
(1) Gain client’s cooperation

(2) Improve ...

Assignment: Together We Stand Letter

Dear Citizens of Suburbia,

I am writing to you today to discuss a matter of grave importance. We are all aware of the rampant illnesses that have been wreaking havoc on our children and our community – they have led to us worrying about what might be in the future for the rest of us. It is clear it is no genetic defect; something is rotten in our little suburban community. As a result, I have done some investigating into this problem, and have concluded that our gas company might be contributing to the increasing number of illnesses being found in our ...