Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958. He was one of ten children growing up. Michael and his brothers grew up in a very strict home. He had many conflicts with his father, who was physically and emotionally abusive. Michael's musical career began with the formation of the Jackson 5 in 1963, when he joined his brothers Jackie, Tito, Marlon and Jermaine in their already booming musical group. This was the beginning of Michael's singing career. He was only five years old at the time, and started out on his own in 1971 at the young age of thirteen (Internet Movie Database). His fame continued to grow, until 1993, when things took a turn for the worse. Michael was accused of child sexual abuse. He denied these claims and the boy's family was finally settled out of court. It was around the same time in the 1990s that Michael was struggling with a drug addiction (Merkin, 2009). Lisa Maria Presley, who supported Michael through sexual abuse claims, married him in 1993, but divorced him after just two years. He married again in 1996, this time to Deborah Jeanne Rowe, a longtime friend. They had their first child, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., or "Prince", on February 13, 1997. Their second child, Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, was born on April 3, 1998, followed by a divorce in 1999. The custody of both children went to Michael. To everyone's surprise, Michael had a third child in 2002, from an unknown mother. He claimed to have gone through the process of artificial insemination, using a surrogate mother and his own sperm. He named the baby Prince Michael Jackson II, calling him “Blanket” (Ditzian, 2009). On November 20, 2002, Michael held his newborn baby, Blanket, over the balcony railing with a crowd of fans... middle of paper......n. It is the therapist's job to listen very carefully to everything Michael says during our sessions together. Catharsis, the third technique, occurs when the therapist guides him through his past and helps him relive his problems and then overcome them. Finally, processing the events now interpreted and understood is the most difficult and time-consuming process of the four. It may take years to complete. As for Michael's drug addiction, the process is very similar. His past would be discovered and he would be encouraged to overcome his past conflicts and then, ultimately, change the way he lives (Comer, 2011). Psychodynamic theory has not proven to be very effective. It helps people more when combined with other approaches, and is now the starting point, or basis, in other types of therapy (Comer, 2011).