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Personality Development Theories
Personality Development Theories
July 19, 2012 By Dr Abha Bang 0 Comments Dr Sigmund Freuds theory of personality development is one of the most popular, and also most controversial theories of modern psychiatry. Read more about the various stages Freud believed an individual needed to successfully complete to develop a healthy personality.
What is personality?
Personality can be defined as the various enduring and distinctive patterns of behaviour and thought that are characteristic of a particular person. Experts differ on the how and why of development of our adult personality. Some believe it is a result of the expression of genetically determined traits, others claim they are creations shaped by environmental influences, while yet others attribute it to the product of interaction between nature and nurture. In the following series, we try and understand some of the prominent theories of personality development.
development and how an individual progresses through these shapes his/her personality. A brief description of these stages is given below.
Freud. This stage gives rise to powerful internal resources for regulation of drive impulses and their direction to constructive ends known as the superego.