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psychosexual development

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psychosexual development [¦sī·kō¦sek·chə·wəl di′vel·əp·mənt]
(psychology)
In psychoanalytic theory, a series of four developmental stages (oral, anal, phallic, and Oedipal), relatively fixed in time, that are determined by the interaction between a person's biological drives and the environment.


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The psychosexual development of urban lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths.
Schnarch (1991) suggests that sexual anxiety, and anxiety tolerance, originates in a person's psychosexual development and constitutes an indispensable part of such development.
Maybe I missed out on crucial stages of my psychosexual development and should be seeing a shrink.
 
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