 Your life is going well and you are not prepared for turmoil.  The natural reaction is shock.

 Try to avoid the inevitable  The Doctor must be wrong….  It could not be her car…

 This anger can be taken out on anything or anyone  Why her?  There can’t be a god…..

 God if you do this….I will go to church every week.  Please take me instead…..  If you will just give me one more month…..

 Seek realistic solutions  Utilize all possible treatments

 Find a way forward  You may not like it, but you deal with it  Look on the positive side

 There is no time frame  Some are stuck in stages longer than others  A person can not be jolted out of a stage by someone else  You may return to a stage do to a trigger

 Freud believe that our personality is made up of the id, ego and super ego (we will discuss this later)  Because of this theory he believe that most of “who we are” is formed at a young age  Much of his psychosexual theory has been discounted…but it is kind of interesting  We have accepted many of his terms in our venacular

 An infant finds pleasure through the mouth ◦ Ex. Nursing ◦ If an infant wants to explore something it immediately goes to the mouth. ◦ Have you heard of an “oral fixation?”

 Toddler finds pleasure in controlling his or her bowels.  There are few things a toddler can produce…..  My nephews loved to say..”Aunt Nicole, do you want to see……  Have you ever been called anal?

 Can you guess where they find pleasure?  This is the stage of the Oedipus complex and/or the Electra complex

Latency 6-12Genital 12 on up Children explore and realize the difference between sexes  People begin to repress events in each of the stages and personalities form