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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the major psychodynamic theories of researchers including Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Karen Horney, and Harry Stack Sullivan. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that relate both to the process of personality development and the functions of interpersonal relationships. Psychoanalysis, individual psychology, analytical psychology, object relations theory, psychoanalytical social theory and interpersonal theory
have all been developed as an extension of psychodynamic principles and research. Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytical theory, introduced by Sigmund Freud, was based on the belief that personality is not a static
entity, but a dynamic and process-oriented element. Specifically, Freud believed that personalities developed in relation to biological and motivational drives and that early learning experiences influence the progression of
personality through biological stages. Personality relates to the application of motivational principles that determine individual actions. Freud believed that personality formation was linked to his developmental theory and
the influences on early childhood (Ahles, 2004). Specifically, Freud believed that personality formation was defined in many ways from the experiences in the first 4-5 years of life, during
the infantile stage, when children learn about how to have their needs met and the impacts of the absence of response to motivating factors (Feist & Feist, 2009).
Freud also noted a connection between his psychoanalytical theory and the methods for viewing interpersonal relationships related to the dynamics of early drive formation and the pursuit of motivations.
Though Freud focused a considerable amount of research on the way in which biological and psychological motivations determined specific behaviors, he also recognized the components of the past that
impacted interpersonal interactions. It was Freuds contention that "present behavior is mostly shaped by past causes rather than by peoples goals for the future" (Feist & Feist, 2009, p.
62). The application of this principle relates both to the interactions that occur between people and the methods that Freud used to relate individual interactions to the positive or
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