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Freud's developmental theory of psychosexual development was one of the first attempts to align psychology with the scientific structure and methodology of medicine. This unification was achieved by first defining the stages of normative human sexual development. Freud categorized psychosexual maturation into 5 distinct phases, with each stage representing a focus of the libido or instincts on different erogenous zones of the body.
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