individual differences - psychodynamic approach
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- Created on: 13-01-21 12:11
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- psychodynamic
- Schizophrenogenic mother
- Consider mother-child relationship to be crucial factor in development of schizophrenia
- Concept proposes that mothers of those who develop schizophrenia are overprotective and controlling
- Overprotection stifles child’s emotional development, emotional distance deprives child of personal security - leaves individual vulnerable when faced with stress
- regression
- As adults people satisfy oral desires through kissing, chewing, smoking etc
- If an individual experiences excessive amounts of stress they may regress back to oral stage
- Regression is ego defence mechanism - ego retreats to earlier stage (oral for schizophrenia)
- May be temporary or continue long term
- Losing touch with reality
- In oral stage ego is not well developed - role of ego is to control id's impulses, try to balance demands of id with moral limitations imposed by superego
- If individual regresses to point where ego essentially does not exist, there's nothing stopping the id from operating unimpeded
- Symptoms eg) hallucinations and delusions represent unchecked activities of id
- Person loses touch with reality, unable to distinguish between reality, desires and fantasies
- Similar state to that of newborn - schizophrenia typefied with primary narcissism seen in newborns
- fixation
- Oral stage of psychosexual development - libido receives satisfaction from stimulation of mouth and lips
- Most urges satisfied by feeding from mother’s breast
- Infant receives too much or too little oral stimulation, they may become fixated
- Freud proposed individuals with schizophrenia become fixated in one or two months of oral stage
- Schizophrenogenic mother
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