Which theorist revised sigmund Freud's stages of development, replacing Freud's Psychosexual stages with Psychosocial stages?

Which theorist revised sigmund Freud's stages of development, replacing Freud's Psychosexual stages with Psychosocial stages? Correct Answer Eric Erickson

Psychodynamics, also known as dynamic psychology, is the study of the interrelationship of various parts of the mind, personality, or psyche as they relate to mental, emotional, or motivational forces especially at the unconscious level.

• Erikson was psychoanalytic like Freud but differ from Freud in regard to psycho-sexual development. Erikson is much more culture-oriented than Freud and his theory is labeled as Psychosocial instead of Psychosexual.

Key Points

• Eric Erickson developed Psychosocial theory. He explained eight stages of development through which a healthy developing person would pass.
  Erikson believed that social interaction and experience play a decisive role. His eight-stage theory of human development described this process from infancy through death.
  • Psychosocial virtues or strengths (positive outcomes): 
    • Each stage involves certain developmental tasks that are psychosocial in nature and has a certain optimal time as well.
    • If a stage is managed well, we carry with us certain virtue or psychosocial strength that will help us through the rest of the stages of our lives.
  • Psychosocial maladaptations and malignancies (negative outcomes):
    • If a child is able to pass successfully through the different stages and development, one can expect a positive healthy person.
    • However, if the person faces more failure than success, his personality will be unhealthy.
    • Maladaptations and ‘Malignancies’ represent the negative outcomes arising from an unhelpful experience through each of the crisis stages. 

Thus, it is concluded that Eric Erickson revised Sigmund Freud's stages of development, replacing Freud's Psychosexual stages with Psychosocial stages.

 Hint

• Karen Horney developed the theory of neurotic needs.
• Alfred Adler developed the theory of Psychotherapy and personality.
• Viktor Frankl developed the field of Logotherapy.

Additional Information

• Psychosexual Stages of Development:
  • Freud believed that personality gets well established during childhood, largely before the age of five years.
  • He proposed five stages of psychosexual development which include oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latency stage, and genital stage.