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Psy 3001, Chapter 4, Online
Psy 3001, Chapter 4, Online
CHAPTER (4)
PSYCHIATRIC PARADIGMS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1.0 INTRODUCTION
led to the application of psychoanalytic theory to crime and delinquency. Freud viewed
crime as a neurotic type of disorder. He suggested that the offender may commit offenses
because of an unconscious desire for guilt-relieving punishment. Criminal and delinquent
offenses, like neuroses, were outgrowths of repression and self-directed aggression.
the core of a strong and efficient superego, act as a barrier against the instinctual forces
and guide his behavior in accordance with social standards.
development of the ego or reality principle and the unrestrained operation of the pleasure
principle. A gradual training of the child by the parents, characterized neither by an
unloving harshness nor by an excess of indulgence, is necessary for the development of
ego controls that curb and pleasure principle. In the absence of such ego controls, a “hate
reaction” occurs, and the child becomes dissocial or delinquent.
Redl eJU Wineman wdkUu Aichhorn uJhodkY ego ESifh superego xdef;csKyfrI vHkavmufpGm
zGHUNzdK;wdk;wufrItwGuf rvkyfaqmifEdkifcJhjcif;udk txl;jyKazmfjycJhw,f/ 'ghtjyif þuJhodkY
cRwf,Gif;& jcif; t&if;tjrpfonf rdbESifh uav;wdkU\ qufqHa&;rsm;wGif vdktyfcsufrsm;½dSjcif;?
rdbrsm;u om;orD;udk cspcf ifrI rjyEdkifjcif;? vspfvsL½Ijcif;? ypfy,fjcif; (odkYr[kwf) &ufpufpGm
jyKrlaqmif½Gufjcif;wdkUaMumifhjzpfonf/ Redle ESifh Wineman wdkUu "the ego that cannot
perform" aqmif½GufrI rjyKEdkifaom twåESifh ywfoufNyD; wjcm;olrsm;xufydkí tao;pdwf
azmfjya&;om;cJhonf/ qdkvdkonfrSm ego \ xdef;csKyfrIrvkyfEkdifjcif;udk qdkvdkjcif;jzpfonf/
atmufwGif azmfjyxm;aom Z,m;onf "weak ego" \ xif½Sm;aom tjyKtrlyHkpHrsm;jzpfonf/
1. Low frustration tolerance;
4. “Excitement contagion";
Such detailed descriptions as those supplied by Redl and Wineman are valuable in
specifying the applicability limits of a theoretical formulation. All delinquents are not
characterized by behaviors such as these, and there is no implication the theory should fit
cases that cannot be so described – that delinquents with quite different behavior
characteristics should have experienced neglect, rejection, cruelty, or lack of affection
when very young. These detailed theoretical formulations are attempts to explain the
same behavior phenomenon.
Redl and Wineman. By their more detailed description of the behavior characteristics of
the problem boys Redl and Wineman have narrowed their scope to the type of delinquent
that has been called an “unsocialized aggressive,” in contrast to Aichhorn’s attempt to
encompass all delinquency within a psychoanalytic framework. It is characteristic of the
psychiatric tradition generally to assume that criminal or dissocial acts represent a type of
spontaneous and natural response to underlying emotional problems, that is, as responses
that do not need to be learned. This assumption appears to be much more tenable with
respect to the behavior of the unsocialized aggressive than with respect to crime in
general.
importance. If this is the case, it means that in therapy attention should be directed from
the symptoms and what they mean to search for the sources of frustration.
intense emotional arousal and possesses unusually weak inner controls, he will not
engage in recurrent criminality without the approval of some friends and associates.
2. Criminal behavior is the sum of a person’s criminal tendencies (T) plus the
person’s total situation (S) divided by his or her resistance (R) to criminality.
There has been a great deal of research comparing criminal and noncriminal
responses to personality measures. Without exception, these researches show no
significant differences in the personalities of criminals and noncriminals when the bias of
the investigator is controlled.
4.0 SUMMARY
Freud viewed crime as a neurotic type of disorder. He suggested that the offender
may commit offenses because of an unconscious desire for guilt-relieving punishment.
Most contemporary psychoanalysts distinguished between the symptoms of neurosis and
those of criminal behavior and recognized the possibility of both occurring together and
intertwining. Most theorists suggest that neuroses represent inwardly directed aggression,
whereas “in the delinquencies, aggression is always directed toward the outside.”
Redl and Wineman also emphasize the failure to develop adequate ego and
superego controls. Furthermore, the roots of these defects are located in defective parent-
child relationships, especially relationship lacking in affection or characterized by
negligence, rejection, or cruelty.
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A wide variety of hostile and aggressive acts have been interpreted as either a
direct or a symbolic reaction to frustrations. Fredudian theory suggests that hostile and
aggressive impulses may be “repressed”. However, the aggressive “energy” generated by
frustration remains temporarily latent and will eventually find expression in less-direct
ways. It may be expressed in symbolic and non-threatening ways against the real or
imagined source of frustration; or it may be unconsciously displaced onto another person
or object symbolic in some sense of the source of frustration. Leonard Berkowitz
suggested that frustrations are important in the development of delinquency and
criminality but are not the sufficient cause of such behavior. He provides and
interpretation for the behavior of the “unsocialized aggressive” delinquent.
Abrahamsen maintains that crime is the result of multiple factors that can be
summarized in two “laws”. Yochelson and Samenow, presented an idea of “criminal
mind.” research comparing criminal and noncriminal responses to personality measures
show no significant differences in the personalities of criminals and noncriminals when
the bias of the investigator is controlled.
For the purposes of developing general theories of crime, the psychiatric paradigm
leaves much to be desired. In practically every attempt to construct a general explanation
of why people commit crime or delinquent acts, the psychiatric approach introduces
tautologies and auxiliary hypotheses that limit the utility of the theory.
KEYS QUESTION
behavior?
behavior.
aggression principle.
GLOSSARY
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Aggression &efvdkpdwf
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delinquencies ayghwefqdk;oGrf;jcif;
offense jypfrIusL;vGefrI
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