Personality Overview Paper
Personality Overview
Kathleen Goularte
PSY405
December 6, 2010
Professor Lynn Hagan
Personality Overview
Sigmund Freud discovered psychoanalysis as an important discipline in psychology. Karen Klein was an important female psychoanalyst, most believed second to Freud, who focused on observation, child analysis, psychotic traits, and substances related to primitive development of the ego and personality. Klein’s clinical studies thoroughly documented child analysis while playing with toys, and other objects, displaying many hostile and cruel actions, and active communication. Klein’s observations identified how children interacted and revealed emotions, and unconscious processes that expressed envy, anxiety, aggression, and sadism. Freud …show more content…
(2002, June). Heritage column: Melanie Klein, psychoanalyst. The Feminist Psychologist, pp. 28-29. Retrieved from PsycEXTRA database.
Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality (7th ed.). New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill.
Freud, Sigmund. (2006). In Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/collinssoc/freud_sigmund
Freud, Sigmund. (1856-1939). (2009). In the Hutchinson unabridged encyclopedia with atlas and weather guide. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/freud_sigmund_1856_1939
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Klein, Melanie. (2006). In the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/edinburghpsychoa/klein_melanie
Mason, A. (2003). Melanie Klein; 1882-1960. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(2), 241. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from Research Library. (Document ID:290819001).
Melanie Klein. (1992). Melanie Klein: The ego and the good object. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(11), 1607. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from Research Library.
Kathleen Goularte
PSY405
December 6, 2010
Professor Lynn Hagan
Personality Overview
Sigmund Freud discovered psychoanalysis as an important discipline in psychology. Karen Klein was an important female psychoanalyst, most believed second to Freud, who focused on observation, child analysis, psychotic traits, and substances related to primitive development of the ego and personality. Klein’s clinical studies thoroughly documented child analysis while playing with toys, and other objects, displaying many hostile and cruel actions, and active communication. Klein’s observations identified how children interacted and revealed emotions, and unconscious processes that expressed envy, anxiety, aggression, and sadism. Freud …show more content…
(2002, June). Heritage column: Melanie Klein, psychoanalyst. The Feminist Psychologist, pp. 28-29. Retrieved from PsycEXTRA database.
Feist, J., & Feist, G. J. (2009). Theories of personality (7th ed.). New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill.
Freud, Sigmund. (2006). In Collins Dictionary of Sociology. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/collinssoc/freud_sigmund
Freud, Sigmund. (1856-1939). (2009). In the Hutchinson unabridged encyclopedia with atlas and weather guide. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/heliconhe/freud_sigmund_1856_1939
Gerard, H. (1991). Review of "immaterial facts: Freud's discovery of psychic reality and Klein's development of his work". Psychoanalytic Psychology, 8(1), 111-122. doi:10.1037/h0085140.
Klein, Melanie. (2006). In the Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/edinburghpsychoa/klein_melanie
Mason, A. (2003). Melanie Klein; 1882-1960. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 160(2), 241. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from Research Library. (Document ID:290819001).
Melanie Klein. (1992). Melanie Klein: The ego and the good object. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 149(11), 1607. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from Research Library.