Early Childhood

anal-urethral-muscular mode

children learn to control their body, especially in relation to CLEANLINESS and MOBILITY

anal-urethral-muscular mode

time of learning to walk, run, hug parents, and hold on to toys and other objects

autonomy VS shame & doubt

major psychosocial crisis of childhood

autonomy VS shame & doubt

triggered by obstinate insistence on conflicting impulses

shame & doubt

developed if culture that attempts to inhibit some of their self-expression

little

too _________ autonomy:

will have difficulties in subsequent stages, lacking the basic strengths of later stages

autonomy

grows out of basic trust

shame & doubt

strong sense that meets children's attempts to gain control of their anal, urethral, and muscular organs during early childhood IF BASIC TRUST IS NOT DEVELOPED

shame

feeling of self-consciousness, of being looked at and exposed

doubt

feeling of not being certain, the feeling that something remains hidden and cannot be seen

shame & doubt

grow out of the basic mistrust that was established in infancy

will

evolvesfrom the resolution of the crisis of autonomy versus shame and doubt

will

origin of mature willpower and a significant measure of free will

will

developed only when their environment allows them some selfexpression in their control of sphincters and other muscles

compulsion

expresses inadequate will

compulsion

Too little will and too much compulsivity

compulsion

carry forward into the play age as lack of PURPOSE and into the school age as lack of CONFIDENCE