Hank Application Case Study

Case Study 1 (Hank, Application Q 2,5,6)
2. Would Freudian Theory describe Hank's eating and argumentative behaviors as being internally or externally motivated? Explain the motivation. Hank's eating and argumentative behavior can be internally motivated. Since Hank's childhood, he solved his nervous feelings by chewing or eating stuffs. In the book it says that "His mother would often rush to make a bottle for Hank or gave him a cookie to regain some peace and quiet"(Ashcraft 4) Since his childhood, his mother solved his nervous feelings by making him to eat and chew something, so this makes him to think is the only way to solve nervous feelings.
It could be an evidence of fixation "A portion of libido or psychic energy remains invested in that developmental stage, leaving less energy for the following stages."(Schults 65) According to the book, it seems that his mother really took a great care of him when he was young, but except his mother, other people were unconcerned about him. This could made him to have some dissatisfying feelings with people and made him to not have a good fealings of others. So this kind of differences made him to have fixation of eating habits and argumentative behaviors
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5. Would a Freudian Therapist view Hank's weight problem as a behavioral problem in and of itself, or as a symptom of another problem? Explain. I think it could be from behavioral problem. Children used to learn from others behaviors and acts, but when hank was a child, he did not gathered well with his friends, which means that he did not have a chance to learn from others. He does not know what to do when something happens, so the only thing he does is eating, which he had learned from his mother when he was young.
By his fixation at oral stage, when the stressful situations comes to him, he tries to reduce his stress through eating and