Freud & Erik Erikson on Prostitution

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" This paper is an examination of two different theories of personality development, Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic perspective and Erik Erikson's psychosocial perspective, which draws on Freud's theories but expands and deepens them. This study investigates the psychology of female prostitutes who, following the views of each theory, tend to suffer depression and low self-esteem caused by their inability to fully develop through the necessary stages of personality outlined by each psychologist. Both theories argue the necessity for every individual to move through specific stages that allow him or her to resolve internal and external conflicts, many of which have to do with the child's relationship to his or her parents. Psychiatrists who have studied prostitutes have generally concluded that individuals often turn to the "oldest profession" "

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