Question

In Erikson’s therapy with the little boy with megacolon, what was his explanation for why the child’s symptoms improved with therapy? How would you characterize that boys thinking from Piaget’s point of view and would the quality of the child’s thought have any bearing on the development of his symptom?

Answer 1

The stage of identity, Erikson’s therapy described the reason of Mega colon in Peter. In Erikson’s view, the calm of the preceding period gives way to the turbulence and uncertainty. Peter suffered from a psychogenic mega colon, through conservation with Peter and his family Erikson learned that the Peter developed this symptoms shortly after his nurse had been dismissed. The imagination of peter about pregnancy changed his behaviour so that Erikson used psychoanalysis and treat Peter.

Piaget had a little to say about physical changes but his insight into cognitive development help us to understand why this can be an identity searching time. During the stage of concrete operations, the child’s thoughts pretty much tied to the here and now. But with the growth of formal operation, the child thought soars into the distant future and into the realm of the purely hypothetical.

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