schizophrenia- individual differences explanations

Question 1

What happens during the oral stage of development?

Answer 1

The libido receives satisfaction from stimulation of the lips and mouth

Question 2

How does fixation occur in the oral stage?

Answer 2

The libidos urges are usually satisfied through breastfeeding but too much or too little stimulation can result in fixation

Question 3

What did Freud propose about individuals with schizophrenia?

Answer 3

They become fixated during the first one to two months of the oral stage of development

Question 4

How do adults satisfy oral desires?

Answer 4

Though activities such as kissing, smoking, chewing gum, etc

Question 5

What causes regression to the oral stage?

Answer 5

If as an adult, an individual experiences excessive stress

Question 6

What is regression?

Answer 6

An ego defence mechanism which causes the ego to retreat back to an earlier stage

Question 7

What is the role of the ego?

Answer 7

To control the id’s impulses ad to try to balance the demands of the id with the limitations imposed by the superego

Question 8

What happens if the individual regresses to a point where the ego doesn’t exist?

Answer 8

There will be nothing stopping the id from operating completely unimpeded

Question 9

How do symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations link to this?

Answer 9

They represent the unchecked activities of the id. The person loses touch with reality being unable to distinguish from reality and their desires

Question 10

What did Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1948) say?

Answer 10

“The schizophrenic is painfully distrustful and resentful of other people due to the severe early warp and rejection he encountered in important people in his infancy and childhood, as a rule mainly in a schizophrenogenic mother.”

Question 11

What does Fromm Reichmann (1948) concept propose?

Answer 11

The mothers of schizophrenics are overprotective and controlling but at the same time rejecting and distant

Question 12

How does the schizophrenogenic mother affect the child?

Answer 12

The over protection stifles the child’s emotional development, while her emotional distance deprives the child of personal security