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[maddhatter1250]

The gears in my head are turning right now, almost too fast for me to cope with. What I need is to assemble a team to help and change what I would consider to be a drastic error in the way that the psychological society views development. Freud said that we go through a series of challenges in our lives, from birth until death, and I believe that

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[lezbianthezbian]

What about Erickson's stages of development? http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/person/erikson.html
Freud was primarily interested in the earliest stages of life because he thought the earlier something happened the more buried and thus more important it would be. Thus the greater focus on childhood while all of adulthood is broken up into much larger chunks. But, different psychologists since then have focused more on later life. Personally, I don't find the stages particularly helpful. In some ways we deal with the issues of each stage at all points in our lives.

[way_parasitical]

i've read that we undergo major brain developments in our twenties, cementing our dispositions (for the most-part) so i definitely agree that saying that 18 yr olds and 35 yr olds are on the same page developmentally is way off-base

this is ambitious! and exciting, i like your idea and i think there's lots you can do with it. good luck!!!