Freud and Erikson

This first paper is going to be ab verboten a slip study on a 7 year old kid named Gary. Gary is wheelchair reflect and has Muscular Dystrophy and has been home-schooled until now. He seemed to be doing fine in school, only if he has been gross subsequently school and not wanting to go monday mornings. We have to try and figure surface why Gary is skin senses this way. I will be using and comparing Eriksons mental system and Maslows Hierarchy of demand to dissect why the case study subject superpower be acting this way.Eriksons Psychological system is based approximately Freudss Stages of Development, but with further stages and not always based around sex and aggression like Freud uses. Eriksons Theory contains eight stages Trust v. mistrust (birth to two years of age), autonomy v. shame/ doubt (two to four years), initiative v. guilt (four to six years), industry v. inferiority/ diffusion (six to twelve years), identity v. identity confusion (adolescence), intimacy v. isolation (young due date), generatively v. tagnation (middle adulthood), and ego integrity v. despair (late adulthood to death).The first four stages match up pretty well with Freuds Theorys stages, with an surplus four stages about adulthood at the end. Two big things about Eriksons Theory is that achievement builds on previous stages and that failure is cumulative (Morrison, lecture, 2011). I can apply Eriksons Theory to the case study with Gary in a couple of ways. The first observation I can make is that Gary is his change the bed problem.If he hasnt done it in years, why is he doing it now? Gary has probably failed to gain in the autonomy v. shame stage of development. It doesnt say how long Gary has been in a wheelchair, but my guess is quite awhile. Even if it was after his toilet training years, he had to re-learn how to go by him egotism when he was given a wheelchair. This might have gone smoothly when he was at home with the sponsor of his loving and supportive parents, but he probably doesnt trust in teachers or back up to help him if he needs it.He feels ashamed of himself for not world able to go cleanly like at home, and these olfactions of shame are causing other problems in school also. This GREATLY affects his self honour levels and disturbs the rest of his school life. Another angle of looking at Garys problems is he isnt succeeding in the industry v. inferiority stage. This stage is about learning in school and communicating and is a very social stage (Morrison, lecture, 2011).SInce Gary is in a wheelchair, he cant participate in regular activities in P.E. classes. He has to have adaptive P. E. based on him not being able to walk. Watching the other kids playing on the basketball courts and playing football and stuff leaves him feeling left out. He isnt building skills for a teamwork mentality like allbody else. He feels left out of the fun and probably puts himself lower than the rest of his peers. This would greatly hurt his self-esteem and competence. This could be an explanation for him crying after school and just not wanting to go Sunday nights.Although Eriksons Psychological Theory can let off Garys problems in terms of missed of problems in developmental stages, Maslow can explain them more generically with his Hierarchy of Needs. Maslows Hierarchy of needs has five stages, starting with the most unmannerly working towards more finite biological and physiological needs (food, water, shelter, warmth), safety needs (protection and security), belonging and bop needs (family, affection, relationships), esteem needs (achievement, status, responsibility), and self- actualization (personal growth) (Morrison, lecture, 2011).Using Maslows hierarchy of needs, I can analyze Gary and determine that it seems as if Gary isnt fulfilling his esteem needs. He seems to have a low self esteem and a low sense of accomplishment. This is probably because he cant do the same P. E. activities as the rest of the ki ds. Just being around a muss of kids that can walk and do things he cant is probably the main reason for his sadness and not wanting to go to school. When he was at home all day, he had his parents to comfort him if he ever had questions about other kids.His parents might have actually over protected him, as in Gary wasnt prepared to go to man school because his parents sheltered him from the truth of the real world and wasnt ready for it. Since Gary is having trouble with his esteem needs, he cannot feel accomplished and move on to his self- actualization needs. He cant grow as a person until the lower level needs are met. There are a lot of theories that people can use when analyzing peoples problems.But looking at Garys problems, Eriksons Psychological Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs were the ones I felt like could explain why Gary is having problems the best. Not every theory is applicable to every situation. These two theories made sense to me and I believe explained hi s problems the best out of all of the theories we have looked at in class. Between the two I used, I believe Eriksons Psychological Theory explains it better than Maslows Hierarchy of Needs, but they both have some candid points in this case study.