Jigsaw Instructions:

For your chosen theorist:

 Explain what he or she focused on/criticized.

 Explain how his or her ideas differed from Freud’s.

 Explain what he or she accepted of Freud’s.

 Any other interesting facts you find

Helpful sources: https://www.verywellmind.com/who-were-the-neo-freudians-2795576 and pages 518-519 in

your textbook.

Your poster should look like this:

Name of Theorist (large letters)

Focus of theorist and main

ideas.

How theorist How theorist

differed from agreed with
Freud Freud

Any other interesting facts.

 Jigsaw Notesheet

Highlighted universal themes in the unconscious as

a source of creativity and insight. Found

Carl Jung
opportunities for personal growth by finding

meaning in moments of coincidence.

Focused on the fight against feelings of inferiority

as a theme at the core of personality, although he

Alfred Adler
may have been projecting from his own

experience.

Criticized the Freudian portrayal of women as

weak and subordinate to men.

Karen Horney
She highlighted the need to feel secure in

relationships.

Psychodynamic Theorists accepted Freud’s ideas about:

 The importance of the unconscious and childhood relationships in shaping personality

 The id/ego/superego structure of personality

 The role of defense mechanisms in reducing anxiety about uncomfortable ideas’

Psychodynamic Theorists differed from Freud in a few ways:

 Adler and Horney believed that anxiety and personality are a function of social, not sexual,

tensions in childhood

 Jung believed that we have a collective unconscious, containing images from our species’

experiences, not just personal repressed memories and wishes.