Margaret Mahler, Sigmund Freud & Erik Erikson

A Hypertext Overview

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Month-by-Month Look at Development 1-36 Months

• One Month
• Two Months
• Three Months
• Four Months
• Five Months
• Six Months
• Seven Months
• Eight Months
• Nine Months
• Ten Months
• Eleven Months
• Twelve Months
• Landmarks of the First Year of Life
• One Year
• Thirteen to Fourteen Months
• Fifteen Months
• Sixteen to Eighteen Months
• Nineteen to Twenty-Four Months
• Twenty-five to Thirty Months
• Thirty-One to Forty-Two Months
• Two to Three Years

Erikson, Mahler & Freud: Theories, Phases & Stages

• The Theoreticians
• Theorists’ Views of Development

Erik Erikson

• Erikson’s Theories
• Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development
• Erikson’s Oral-Sensory Stage
• Erikson’s Muscular-Anal Stage
• Erikson’s Locomotor Genital Stage
• Erikson’s Latency Stage (6-11 years)
• Adolescence

Sigmund Freud

• Freud
• Freud’s Developmental Phases
• Freud’s Oral Phase
• Freud’s Anal Phase
• Freud’s Genital Stage
• Freud’s Phallic Phase
• Freud’s Latency Phase

Margaret Mahler

• Margaret Mahler’s Theory of Development
• Margaret Mahler’s Theory of Development (Table)
• Mahler’s ‘Autism’ Phase
• Mahler’s Symbiosis Subphase
• Mahler’s Phase of Object Constancy
• Mahler’s Differentiation Subphase
• Mahler’s Second Subphase – Practicing
• Mahler’s Third Subphase – Rapprochement