This document discusses psychosexual development and the factors that influence it. It outlines the typical stages of development from childhood through adulthood, including the sexual unawareness stage from birth to 1 year old, the sexual awakening stage from 3-7 years old, and the sexual preoccupation stage of adolescence from 13-20 years old. It notes that healthy psychosexual development does not occur in a vacuum and is influenced by predisposing factors like pregnancy/birth experience, temperament, attachment styles, and family competence/attitudes. The document also describes potential "modes of psychosexual fixation" where development is arrested at a stage, such as fixation in childhood resulting in feelings of inadequacy and perceiving relationships as threatening.

1. Psychosexual Development
by: Dr. Michael Cavanagh
“Theoretical and Practical
Considerations/
Psychosexual Fixation”

2. 1. Progressing through
developmental stages is
analogous to climbing the
rungs of a ladder in two ways.
Psychosexual Development

3.  esteem
2. knowledge
Healthy
 confidence
psychosexual
 direction
development does
 in vacuum.
not occurdiscipline
SELF
Psychosexual Development

4. 3. Psychosexual
development rarely
follows a smooth and
even course.
Psychosexual Development

5. 4. The trajectory of
psychosexual
development is
influenced by several
factors.
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6. Predisposing Factors
a. Pregnancy and Birth Experience
b. Temperament and Personality
d. Attachment Styles
e. Level of Family Competence
and Style
f. Family Attitudes toward Intimacy
and Sexuality

7. Psychosexual Development
MODES OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
FIXATION
CHILDHOOD
RESULTS OF FIXATION
Sexual unawareness
(birth-1 yr. old)
STAGE
PHASE
-Tend to feel inadequate,
-Secretly a weak
sexual
-Possess the whole area
perceiving
-may act sexually but
of psychosexual
psychosexuality
relationships as
they are afraid to and
-They experience let
threatening.
anyone, including
Sexual awakening
(3-7 yrs. old)
Sexual surreptitiousness
(7-12 yrs. old)
enjoy relatively few
their friends or do
-If these individuals
(sexual thoughts,
participate in sexual
spouse, know the
behaviors, itfeelings, or
is likely
fantasies,their to be
extent of embarrassed
in tentative,
behaviors)
sexuality.
manner.

8. Psychosexual Development
MODES OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
FIXATION
ADOLESCENT
RESULTS OF FIXATION
Sexual Fantasy
(13-20 yrs. old)
STAGE
PHASE
Generally drawn to
Tend to limit their
opposite sexed people in
sexual life to the self
markedly superficial,
Often pre-occupied
centered, fantasy or
realm ofambivalent orto
with sex, both in
conflicting ways.
derive more pleasure
theirfantasy and
Tend be overly
formtoprivaterather
dependent on parental
social lives.
than they do actual
affirmation, support and
values.
relationships.
Sexual preoccupation
( 13-20 yrs. old)
Superficial sexual
relating (21-25 yrs. old)

9. Psychosexual Development
MODES OF PSYCHOSEXUAL
FIXATION
STAGE
ADULTHOOD
PHASE
Psychosexual
Mutuality
( 26-40 yrs. old)
RESULTS OF FIXATION
May be capable of
relating to others
superficially.
They are in a
psychological
straightjacket.

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