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  1. Primary autism
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1st month of life

  • equivalent to freud’s primary narcissism
  • no recognition of any external object that is the agent of satisfaction
  • conditional hallucinatory omnipotence
  • midway thru–beginning to recognize someone other that self exists
  • but still very egocentric
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  1. Normal symbiosis
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2 months thru 4 months of age

  • child’s autistic shell begins to crack (child is growing)
  • still limited ability to differentiate between their efforts and the efforts of external agent to reduce tension
  • very strong emotional attachment to mother
  • child begins to experience mother as separate entity
  • what is the significance of mother’s holding…feeding…touching…talking…smiling…have on the child? “I am a person of value and worth…or the opposite”
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conditional hallucinatory omnipotence

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“Unreal belief that i’m all powerful, i’m the sustaining person keeping myself alive”

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  1. 1st sub-phase
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differentiation and development of body image-5 thru 9 months

  • hatching from shell-what is this? How does this differ from cracking? Coming out of shell
  • child emerging as a perceptually aware individual
  • early attempts to break away and separate from mother
  • great deal of time exploring world
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indiscriminant

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  • 0 to 5 months

- what is this? Willing to go to anybody, strangers, new people…

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selective

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  • 5-10 months
  • stranger anxiety-what is this? apprehension/anxiety when in presence of other people, hold onto mom when being given to other people, never take eyes off of stranger
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Multiple attachments

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> 10 months

-what is this? More willing to go to multiple people

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secure attachment

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  • what are they? Level of comfort with others in the world
  • how do they develop? consistency/ lack of love caring, nurturing …
  • impact? Developing secure attachment, more willing to take chances, having a sense of hope, know that it is going to be okay
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avoidant attachment

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  • difficulty attaching to other people
  • fear of isolation
  • envious jealous
  • frequent promiscuous sexual relationships, sex=love
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anxious ambivalent

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  • mom was caring sometimes and sometimes wasnt
  • ”sometimes i feel good sometimes i dont”
  • willingness to trust but then fear of betrayal/abandonment
  • envious, jealousy
  • sexual relations, love=sex
  • feels the person getting too close and they pull away
  • franks cat story
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-4. Practicing sub-phase

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10 thru 14 months

  • what is happening during this time period? What is the child now able to do?
    - language tremendous increases in language
    - locomotion tremendous increase
    - cognitive ability tremendous increases
  • ego is now capable of reality testing
  • child now focuses on inanimate object-examples? Toys, play time, imagination
  • but mother is still object of central focus mom is still the thing im attached to to
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-5. Rapproachment

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14 months - 2 years

- what is happening during this time period? What is the child now able to go?
	- >language-receptive and expressive
	- >locomotion
	- >cognitive ability-what does that allow for?
- child becomes m0re aware of separation from mother
- child now more independent
- increased sensitivity to moms absence
	- how does child react to this? As i become more aware, i am ready to separate and it creates anxiety so i reconnect to mom again
- approximately 21 months of age-oedipal crisis
	- mahler embraces the freudian model on this
- splitting-what is it? What does it allow a child to do? Get out frustration
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-6. Separation and individuation

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2nd thru 4rd years
-emotional object constancy-what is it? For this to occur, what must be in place? Even tho moms not here, i know she still loves me wherever she is

  • trust
  • ego can now tolerate anxiety associated with separation and and can individuate… i am me… can deal with anxiety associated with separation, i can begin my own journey
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Margaret Mahler

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Bridge theorists between analytic and object relations theories-what does this mean?

- tied to drive reduction
- embraces the importance of early mother/father/child interactions - Major areas of focus-attachment and separation
- makes distinction between truly autistic children and symbiotically psychotic
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autistic children

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no ability to use mother as auxiliary ego

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symbiotically psychotic children

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attachment is too fused

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most critical stage for ericcsons theory?

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FIVE

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ERIK ERICKSON

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  • freudian analyst-trained by anna freud
  • psychosocial theory of development
  • expands the functions and capacities of ego
  • sometimes referred to as the creative ego
  • trust…hope…autonomy…will…industry
  • recognizes and stresses importance of social…historical…and cultural factors-how so?
  • expands developmental process-when does development/growth end?
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to have healthy development-what must occur?

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Positive and negative aspect have to occur but positive has to be more dominant

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virtue?

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ego strengths

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ritualization?

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socially accepted forms of behaviors and interactions

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ritualism?

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rigid…perverted…negative forms of behaviors and interactions

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weaning-what is it? Why is it important?

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-mom leaving (work…another pregnancy/child…intimacy with partner…resumption of own life)

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-what is the hazard if weaning is not handled properly?

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Acute infantile depression

-state of mourning…reflecting on the better days

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Stage 1- trust vs mistrust

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1st year of life
mother/child interactions are critical

  • virtue: hope-what is it?
    • belief that losses, failure…etc…will not be overwhelming
  • ritualization: numinous-what is it? Healthy reverence for mom, mom is an all special powerful being
    • how is this seen? Feeding…holding…caring…touching…acceptance…etc
      • what are potential outcomes of above?
        • love…care…trust…etc
        • if not?estrangement…abandonment…etc
  • ritualism: idolism-what is it?
    • idolatrous/hero like worship of another
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stage 2-autonomy vs shame and doubt

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2 years of life

  • time to learn of the Do’s… donts…expectations…obligations…rights…privileges
  • time of greater autonomy…freedom…exploration…how come?
  • child learns to accept control from others… and to control self
  • virtue-will
    • strength to make decisions…assert self…etc
  • ritualization judicious-what is it?
    • child learns to differentiate between right and wrong… that which is or is not acceptable
  • ritualism: legalism-what is it?
    • victory of the letter of law over the spirit…punish others…humiliate others…etc… just for the pleasure of it…
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stage 3: initiative vs guilt

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3rd-5th years of life

- >language
- >locomotion
- >cognitive/perceptual abilities
- >exploration of environment
- >capacity to plan and establish goals - virtue: purpose-what is it?
- courage to pursue goals uninhibited by fear of punishment and guilt
  • Ritualization authenticity or dramatic-what is it?
    • i am who i am… i can be what i want to be…
  • ritualism: impersonation-what is it?
    • presentation to other that which is not representative of true personality
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Stage 4- industry vs inferiority

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  • danger/crisis-inferiority
    • unwillingness to take chances/risks
    • fear of failure
  • virtue: competence-what is it? Completion of tasks unimpaired by feelings of inferiority
  • ritualization: formality- what is it? Learning to perform tasks in a proper way
  • ritualism: formalism- what is it? Empty…meaningless behaviors…activity…without purpose…
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Stage 5- identity vs identity confusion (adolescence)

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  • failure of person to establish stable identity
  • feelings of isolation…emptiness…anxiousness…indecisiveness…
  • if negative identity is formed, sometimes adolescents make vindictive choices in an attempt to not only be harmful, but also to regain control
  • virtue: fidelity-what is it?
    • ability to sustain loyalties…
    • what previous virtue is needed for this to be possible? Trust
  • ritualization: ideology-what is it?
    • incorporation of all previous ritualizations into a coherent set of ideals
  • ritualism: totalism-what is it?
    • total commitment to cause couple with the loss oneself
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stage 6- intimacy vs isolation

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person is prepared to unite identify with another

- seek partnerships
- affiliation with others
- intimacy with others

Virtue: Love-what is it?
-mutuality of devotion, forever subduing the antagonism associated with divided function-what does this mean? “You complete me”, there’s no completion until I make the connection

  • ritualization: affiliative
    • common purpose…shared activities…work…friendship…love
  • ritualism: elitism-what is it? Not everyone is able to participate
    • formation of exclusive groups
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Stage 7- generativity vs stagnation

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-characterized by a concern for what is generated
-products
-ideas
-progeny
-social interest over self interest most be able to sacrifice so children can have a good life
Virtue: care- what is it
-concern for others
-transmission of knowledge to the next generation-what is transmitted?
-ritualization: generational-what is it?
-roles that allow for the transmission of ideals to the next generation-how is this done?
-teaching
-healing
-parenthood everything you do should transport knowledge, care, nurturing to the children
-What value to the person does teaching others have?
-sense of being needed
-sense of being important and of value
-become less consumed by self-interest
-ritualism: authoritism-what is it?
-model of oppression and insensitivity instead of teacher of ideals and values

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Stage 8- integrity vs despair

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sense of my life has had meaning…

- I have cared...taught...produced...etc - virtue: wisdom-what is it?
- concern for life in the face of death - ritualization: integral-what is it?
- integration of all previous stages
- recognition that my life has been one of importance I have added to the process of life - Ritualism: sapientism-what is it?
- the unwise pretense of being wise- what does this mean? Lie to ourselves during the last parts of our life , has our life been in vain or has it been a fruitful one
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Erikson-Oedipal crisis

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embraces the freudian perspective with one change
-female resolution-not damaged, but rather a growing sense of competence because she has a most special role and responsibility…what is that? Women have a sense of value and worth because we are the life sustaining gender

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first born/oldest

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well intended until what? What impacts does this have? Intruder
Reflective of days passed…why?
-neurotics…criminals…drunkards

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middle child

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most well adjusted

		- ambitious-why? Get the least attention, fighting for attention, just the middle kid
		- rebellious
		- envious
		- mediator
		- better adjusted of the children
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youngest

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  • spoiled

- next to oldest they are most neurotic…maladjusted

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only child

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  • rival-who? Girl child-mom, by child-dad
    - spoiled
    - demanding

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