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What Two General Questions Should Guide a Forensic Psychologist's Evaluation

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What two general questions should guide a forensic psychologist's evaluation for criminal insanity? Identify several factors the psychologist should examine in order to answer these two questions.


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Psychosexual Stages

A Freudian theory describing how personality develops through five stages from infancy to adulthood, centered on sexual pleasure from specific body areas.

Phallic Stage

A phase in Freudian psychosexual development, occurring roughly between the ages of three and six, where the libido's focus is on the genital organs.

Gender Identity

An individual's personal sense of their own gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Psychoanalytic Therapy

A therapeutic approach that explores how unconscious thoughts and childhood experiences affect current behavior and mental health.

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