Developmental Psychology and Creation

5 Commentsby   |  11.01.13  |  Second Blog Post

I kind of wanted to take this blog post a little differently than I have before. I chose someone from the book, and someone who doesn’t really get a lot of attention. I wanted to use Anna Freud in my blog post for this week because I think her contributions were very interesting. Most of her life, she was mentored and a student of her father, so she never really got to do much research or branching out on her own. She loved working under him and when he died, she kept working on his ideas. in her own respect, she did a lot of work in the field of child psychoanalysis. She worked as a teacher and began to develop her own theories about child development and began to write her own articles. Her ideas came out around the same time as Melanie Klein, and were extremely opposing. Freud believed that her father was correct and expanded in his ideas about play therapy and dreams. One of the terms she uses is “developmental lines”. This is when a child needs to adapt to life’s demands, and proceeds to the next developmental stage. I think this idea is very interesting because she believed that these were very clear stages and children display these stages as they occur. She does not seem to think that they can occur in a sliding transition, but that life experiences and demands bring children to the next hurdle. This theory seems to fit under Creation. Creation is about how we are made; along the same lines, after we are created, we don’t just stop and stare around all day; we need to develop into fully functioning humans. Developmental psychology, whether it be psychoanalytic or any other kind, seems to fit under this category for that reason.

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  1. Jessica Weeden
    8:54 pm, 11.01.13

    Kasey, the way that you approached this post was creative (pun intended haha). I like how you took Anna’s background and weaved it into how she conjured her developmental theory. Because A. Freud explained that the stages are met only though experience and demand I think that your placement of Developmental Psychology into Creation is accurate. It defines how we transition into newer and more fuller understanding individuals. Thanks for the thoughts!

  2. Mengyuan Tang
    9:47 pm, 11.03.13

    I agree with you that developmental psychology fits the category of Creation. It helps us better understand how we develop and help us live up to our full potential. I also agree with you that one of Anna Freud’s contributions was applying psychoanalysis to children and concentrating on developmental lines. But I think she believed developmental lines were just key adjustments to differentiate one developmental stage from another. The whole process was still a gradual transition.

  3. Hillary Richardson
    4:58 am, 11.04.13

    I think that it is great that you used someone who is somewhat overlooked when it comes to psychology. When we see Freud, no one every really thinks of his daughter. I like that you compared her philosophy to creation. You are totally right in that aspect. We are created the way God intended, however, as time progresses we start to develop. We learn how to do things and the way we look at life is much different. I enjoyed reading your post and how great of a comparison you made about developmental psychology and the creation.

  4. Anna Pierce
    9:20 am, 11.04.13

    Cool connection. I like how you related development and creation. How we develop and grow has a lot to do with how we are created. I like how you talked about something different than what normally people talk about in blog posts.

  5. Lindsay Lowe
    11:59 am, 11.04.13

    Kasey, I appreciated your choice of someone who was less credited in the class materials. I especially think her therapeutic approach could be still considered revolutionary towards child psychology. Creation is a good category since we are considering the way humans are- but i would suggest that the Freud’s could also be classified under the fall in finding things potentially wrong with the human development. Great contribution!

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