Response to David’s Discussion Post

The postulations of neurotic requirements highlighted in the post, according to
suggestions by Horney, are primarily insightful. To provide an elaborate reinforcement to those
ideas, the book The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Dr. Bruce Perry ideates approaches to
identifying challenges that children go through to impact their behavior and development skills.
Central to the ideas of the book is social neglect, a concept that Horney reviews to bring
aggression when a child knows the world around them are filled with hostility (Perry &
Szalavitz, 2017). As much as students learn about psychosocial and developmental disorders in
children, emphasis should be placed on applying these concepts in real-life situations. Perry &
Szalavitz (2017) describe that adequate planning for prenatal and post-natal care advances the
growth of many children through dire stages. Consequently, merging the ideas of Horney, Dr.
Bruce Perry, and Maia Szalavitz gives a perspective that changes the understanding and
management of psychiatric patterns among children.
Furthermore, using Erikson's psychosocial and development stages, parents, caregivers,
and teachers can interact with children and students in ways that add value to life. As pointed out
in the post, to avoid the impacts of basic evil, learning more about the stages of growth in the
theory by Erikson builds a practical tendency to enable an adequate interpretation of bad
behaviors. For example, the prefrontal cortex of the brain develops with time among teenagers.
Their emotional, behavioral, and actions propel them more than adolescents at this age.
Therefore, mental stability is affected by many external factors. However, they become in the
posterior stages of human growth and development curves. In other words, the concepts covered
in this post are valuable for understanding changing behavioral and affiliative tendencies of
children and adolescents.

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Reference

Perry, B. D., & Szalavitz, M. (2017). The boy who was raised as a dog: And other stories from a
child psychiatrist's notebook--What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love,
and healing. Hachette UK.