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An 11 page outline for a suggested series of questions that could be delivered to evaluate personality development in the thirty to forty year old. The author frames these questions around the work of Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud. The author cautions that such assessments are potentially harmful in improperly designed, interpreted, or applied. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Developmental psychology encompasses a multitude of theories that attempt to explain why individuals develop certain personalities
and behaviors. Some of the psychologists that developed these theories have been more successful than others, however, in accomplishing their intended goal. The work of Erik Homberger Erikson
and the infamous Sigmund Freud are particularly noteworthy in this regard. The intent of this paper is to develop twenty questions that could be asked a person that is
in the middle of their adult development regarding the factors that influenced that development. An analysis of why those questions are important to Eriksons and Freuds work will then
follow. The first step in the process of developing the questions noted above is obviously to provide a framework for the construction of
those questions. That framework has fortunately been provided by Erikson himself. Erikson is regarded as one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. He contended
that the human life cycle can be divided into eight specific stages of psychosocial development, stages in which our personalities are formed and stages which determine, to a large extent,
our success or lack of success in various ventures (Boeree, 2002). Eriksons stages include: 1. Trust verses Mistrust, 2.
Autonomy verses Shame & Doubt, 3. Initiative verses Guilt, 4. Industry verses Inferiority, 5. Identity verses Role Confusion, 6. Intimacy verses Isolation, 7. Generativity
verses Stagnation, and 8. Integrity verses Despair (Sharkee, 2002). Eriksons developmental stages not only occur in a certain order but at a certain time in our development in
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