Psychodynamic approach
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 29-05-19 15:36
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- Psycho-dynamic approach
- Structure of the personality
- Id; pleasure principle; childish and selfish
- Ego; reality principle; balances Id and superego
- Superego; morality principle; acts as a moral conscience
- Defence mechanisms to reduce anxiety
- Repression; unpleasant memory pushed into unconscious
- Denial; refusing to accept the reality of a situation
- Displacemen strong emotion focused on a neutral person or object
- Role of the unconscious
- Conscious; we are fully aware
- Pre-conscious; accessible with effort
- Unconscious; accessible with severe help from psychiatrist or never
- Psychosexual stages
- Oral (0-18m) Fixation on the mouth
- Anal (18m-3y Focus goes towards anus, pleasure gained from defecating
- Phallic (3-6y) Oedipus or Electra
- Latent (6-11y) Libido is displaced around body
- Genital (12+) Focus on genitals
- Evaluation
- PA - development of talk therapy
- Evidence from case studies Unreliable and lacks generalisabilit
- Too deterministic, ignores free will
- Unscientific
- Basic assumptions
- Behaviour is unconscious
- Instincts and drives cause our behaviour
- Early childhood experiences shape adult behaviour
- Structure of the personality
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