storm-and-stress period

a period of emotional turmoil. The phrase was used by G. Stanley Hall to characterize adolescence, which he believed to correspond to the turbulent transition from savagery to civilization. It is a translation of the German Sturm und Drang, which was the title of a 1776 drama by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger and was subsequently applied to a German literary movement. Also called Sturm und Drang period.

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Psychology term of the day

January 13th 2025

genetic psychology

the study of the development of mental functions in children and their transformation across the lifespan. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term was preferred over the synonymous developmental psychology.