MICHAEL JACKSON

SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOANALYTIC

• Freud:– HIS ALLEGED MISBEHAVIOUR WITH YOUNG BOYS,

OBSESSION VIS A VIS PLASTIC SURGERY SUGGEST HIS PERSONALITY IS ID DRIVEN.

– His ego was not functioning as it should have been.

HUMANISTIC

• HE IS COMPELLED TO SEEK LOVE FROM IMPERSONAL SOURCES AND HAS NO ONE TO ASSIST HIM

BEHAVIOURIST

• HIS INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR CONTINUES TO BE REWARDED WITH EITHER GOOD OR BAD PUBLICITY. EITHER WORKS AS ATTENTION.

• HE CONTINUES TO BE REWARDED WITH CONTRACTS AND VARIOUS MUSIC AWARDS

• EVEN THOUGH TWICE ACCUSED OF CHILD MOLESTATION, CONCERTS ARE SOLD OUT

• Addiction to pain killer: he was able to sleep only with these pain killers.

SOCIOCULTURAL

• HE LITERALLY CARVES AWAY ALL TRACES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FEATURES PERHAPS DUE TO THE LOWER ESTEEM IN WHICH AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE HELD.

• BETWEEN A SKIN LIGHTENING DISEASE AND A DESIRE TO AFFECT MORE FEMININE FEATURES PERHAPS HIS MISBEHAVIOUR WILL BE OVERLOOKED.