Not exact matches
Using his
psychoanalytic theory, Freud made the controversial proposal that people were repressing their
earliest memories due to their inappropriate sexual nature.
Psychoanalysis: Rooted in the
early works of Sigmund Freud and his research in the area of the human mind,
psychoanalytic theory caused revolution in
early - 20th century psychology.
As a result,
early child development research followed untested
psychoanalytic theory in focusing exclusively on mothers and infants, presuming fathers to be quite peripheral and unnecessary to children's development and psychological adjustment.
Psychoanalytic theory and brain maturation: the most detailed discussion of the
early years and the emotional consequences of brain development is Allan Schore, Affect Regulation and the Origin of Self.
[1][3] There was initially a strong influence from psychoanalysis (most of the
early founders of the field had
psychoanalytic backgrounds) and social psychiatry, and later from learning
theory and behavior therapy - and significantly, these clinicians began to articulate various
theories about the nature and functioning of the family as an entity that was more than a mere aggregation of individuals.