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Defense mechanisms are psychological strategies that are unconsciously used to protect a person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.

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Dreams perform important functions for the unconscious mind and serve as valuable clues to how the unconscious mind operates.

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Mental abnormality an occur if a stage is not completed successfully and the person becomes ‘fixated’ in a particular stage. This particular theory shows how adult personality is determined by childhood experiences.

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May 6, 1856

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Freud proposed that psychological development in childhood takes place in a series of fixed psychosexual stages: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.

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The id, ego, and superego have most commonly been conceptualized as three essential parts of the human personality

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Psychodynamic

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Freud used the analogy of an iceberg to describe the three levels of the mind. The conscious, subconscious and unconscious.

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Freud believed that events in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality