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New Directions For Child Development 1987
Review
Topics: Child; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Psychosexual Development; Stereotyping; Television
PubMed: 3331421
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Journal of Adolescent Health Care :... Mar 1988Few topics in sexology elicit such a diversity of opinions and emotions as the question of etiology of homosexuality. Views frequently carry with them implicit or... (Review)
Review
Few topics in sexology elicit such a diversity of opinions and emotions as the question of etiology of homosexuality. Views frequently carry with them implicit or explicit messages concerning the psychologic health of this sexual orientation. Theories of sexual development usually portray adolescence as a critical time in the life course because of changes in: 1) anatomy and physiology; 2) psychologic functioning: the reawakening, renewal, and reliving of previously established sexual relations and drives; and/or 3) social conditions: an increased exposure and adherence to societal messages concerning appropriate and inappropriate social and sexual behaviors and relationships. This paper provides a brief overview of several major theories--evolutionary biology, psychoanalysis, and social processes--as they relate to the development of sexual orientation. In addition, an ethologic perspective that synthesizes various etiologic theories, as they relate to homosexuality during adolescence, is briefly reviewed. In these discussions, the issue of whether homosexuality is a normal or abnormal developmental state during adolescence is also addressed.
Topics: Adolescent; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Psychosexual Development
PubMed: 3283091
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American Journal of Psychotherapy Jan 1989Characteristics by which to classify a woman as authentically transsexual are offered from earlier investigations and supplemented by findings from recent work with this...
Characteristics by which to classify a woman as authentically transsexual are offered from earlier investigations and supplemented by findings from recent work with this type of patient. Developmental issues are discussed and six psychodynamic accompaniments listed. A case demonstrates how to identify the true female transsexual and how to understand her psychological processes.
Topics: Adolescent; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychosexual Development; Transsexualism
PubMed: 2929798
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1989.43.1.92 -
International Journal of Psychoanalytic...Prevailing psychoanalytic attitudes toward male homosexuality are predisposed to the treatment of it as a psychopathological disorder. This study proposes that the...
Prevailing psychoanalytic attitudes toward male homosexuality are predisposed to the treatment of it as a psychopathological disorder. This study proposes that the appearance of disorder follows from the distortions imposed on the personality during development. Superego conflicts ensue that are relieved rather than resolved in the analysis, if the analyst shares the patient's conviction that it is sexuality that is disordered. The study's second point is the suggestion that the unifying characteristic of male homosexuals is to be found in the particular form of body narcissism that leads to same-sex choice. Third, it is proposed that analysts reconsider the likelihood that biogenetic elements enter into the homosexual outcome.
Topics: Freudian Theory; Gender Identity; Homosexuality; Humans; Male; Personality Development; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychosexual Development; Sexual Behavior; Social Environment
PubMed: 4086176
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The American Journal of Nursing Mar 1976
Topics: Achievement; Attitude of Health Personnel; Attitude to Health; Child; Child Development; Female; Gender Identity; Health Occupations; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Male; Personality Development; Psychiatry; Psychosexual Development; Reproduction; Social Values; Socialization
PubMed: 1044494
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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic... 1976
Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Body Image; Child; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Identification, Psychological; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychosexual Development; Sexual Behavior; Sexual Maturation
PubMed: 803140
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Annual Review of Sex Research 1999
Review
Topics: 3-Oxo-5-alpha-Steroid 4-Dehydrogenase; Disorders of Sex Development; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Male; Psychosexual Development; Sex Differentiation; Terminology as Topic
PubMed: 10895247
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Praxis Der Kinderpsychologie Und... Nov 2002In a prospective study the development of body experience in adolescence and associations with psychosocial characteristics as well as development of symptoms were...
In a prospective study the development of body experience in adolescence and associations with psychosocial characteristics as well as development of symptoms were investigated. Body experience, physical and psychological well-being as well as sense of coherence were assessed three times over the course of 18 months in 325 male and female adolescents aged 16-19 years. During the course of the study the participants reported an improvement of their body experience. Female adolescents reported at all assessment times lower levels of attractiveness/self-confidence and higher levels of insecurity/worry than males. Body experience, physical and psychological well-being as well as sense of coherence were closely associated with each other. The results indicate that body experience generally consolidates during the course of adolescence. However, the development on individual levels can vary considerably. The body experience reflects the physical and psychosexual development as well as the adolescents' well-being. Thus, more consideration should be given to body experience in therapies with adolescents who suffer from psychosomatic illness.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adolescent; Body Image; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Male; Prospective Studies; Psychology, Adolescent; Psychosexual Development; Self-Assessment
PubMed: 12500434
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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic... 1998The psychoanalytic theory of female homosexuality occupies an unusual position in modern psychoanalytic thought because it continues to be influenced by models of the... (Review)
Review
The psychoanalytic theory of female homosexuality occupies an unusual position in modern psychoanalytic thought because it continues to be influenced by models of the mind that have largely been discarded in other areas of psychoanalytic psychology. Psychoanalytic ideas regarding female homosexuality are considered here from an historical perspective. It is suggested that modern psychoanalytic theory about sexual orientation in women must include recent contributions on the psychological development of women, the psychoanalytic psychology of male homosexuality, and relevant extraanalytic observations.
Topics: Female; Freudian Theory; Gender Identity; Homosexuality, Female; Humans; Male; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychosexual Development
PubMed: 9684224
DOI: 10.1177/00030651980460020502 -
The Journal of the American Academy of... 2005In this article, envy is identified as a drive derivative, erupting as a definable behavior in the anal phase of psychosexual development, locating envy as first being...
In this article, envy is identified as a drive derivative, erupting as a definable behavior in the anal phase of psychosexual development, locating envy as first being experienced during the stage of self-development, separation/individuation. The aim of envy, as identified by the nature of the investment the subject makes in envied objects, is described as "aquisitiveness," or, following Klein, sadism, defined in terms of the subject wanting to incorporate the envied object, making the aim of envy narcissistic, that is, an aggrandizing of the self. The usual aim assigned to envy, destructiveness, is conceptualized as a defense against the cannibalistic hunger of envy, in response to the regulatory affect, shame. The dynamic of this defense accounts for the dyadic nature of the object of envy (as opposed to jealousy), supporting the "splitting" quality of this defense. This rendering of envy, shame, and sadism promotes the integration of narcissistic urges into normative psychosexual development and deepens an understanding of the splitting defense in pathological narcissism.
Topics: Defense Mechanisms; Humans; Jealousy; Male; Middle Aged; Narcissism; Object Attachment; Psychosexual Development; Sadism; Shame
PubMed: 16238474
DOI: 10.1521/jaap.2005.33.3.465