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Freud's psychoanalytic theory

How is Freud's theory of psychosexual development stages (such as the oral stage, anal stage, etc.) viewed in modern psychology?

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Evgeniy A. Bryzgalin
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Freud’s theory of psychosexual development is largely criticized in modern psychology for its lack of scientific evidence and overemphasis on sexual drives. While the specific stages (oral, anal, etc.) are seen as outdated, Freud's broader ideas about the unconscious mind and the impact of early childhood experiences remain influential. Today, more evidence-based developmental theories focus on social, cognitive, and emotional factors rather than just sexual stages
Although Freud's specific stage theory has been questioned, many of his concepts, such as the unconscious and psychological de mechanisms, remain influential in modern psychology. Later psychologists, such as Erik Erikson, developed more comprehensive theories of psychosocial development that expanded on Freud's stage theory, emphasizing social and cultural factors.@@

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Can you tell me if these two papers propose the same theory?
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  • Duan Xian XiangDuan Xian Xiang
Let me briefly introduce it below,details are sent to you as attachments:
First, their paper is about:
1. Denial DSM and statistical methods.
2. Use "process"Unified psychology
3. Propose new methods to replace the DSM and statistical methods, which are as follows:
First use the case to conceptualize the patient's psychological process, and then try to modify it.
4. Conceptualize the psychological process with cases.
5. Using a network flow chart for psychological processes
6. Modify the l psychological process.
The contents of my paper are follows:
1. Use "process" (or "program") to unify psychology to establish a general psychological theory.
2. Denial of mental statistics.(However, I have only denied a few words about psychological statistics, and they write very long.)
3. Mining the patients' psychological programs with psychological analysis.
4. Psychological programs are described in natural language and flow charts.
5. Provide ways to modify the psychological procedures.
Is it the same idea? It's just in different terms. They use the word "process", I use the "program", they use the "case conceptualization" method, I use the "psychological analysis", and they use the "network model", and I use the "program model". However, I will explain in the attached document that these are just different names, they are one thing.The word "program" in my paper is very close to "process". I didn't use the word "psychological process" at that time because it did not include "physiological process", and the word "psychological process" is not as accurate as "psychological program", so I chose this term. This is just a different name, there are many cases in my paper, I use psychological analysis to dig out a lot of psychological programs, from the perspective of these "psychological programs" itself, it is a psychological process.

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