psychodynamic explanations of abnormality
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- Created on: 17-05-16 12:08
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- psychodynamic explanations of Abnormalities
- OCD
- Caused by instinctual forces (driven by the ID and the ego) that are not under full control due to traumatic events in the anal stage of the psychosexualstages
- this person is therefore fixated in the anal stage
- it is the battle between the ids desire and superegos morals that can cause OCD as the ego fails to control either
- obsessive thoughts maybe generated by the id but the ego uses defence mechanisms to counteract this by making the person behave in the complete opposite way
- if a child has a traumatic event while potty training for example being messy and being told off then obsessive thoughts of being neat and tidy reemerge in adolescence
- phobias
- The psychodynamic explanation of phobias is based on Freud’s idea that id impulses are repressed and that anxiety is then displaced onto an object or situation.
- little hans case study
- the anxiety is being repressed into the unconsciousness by defence mechanisms and anxiety is being replaced onto another object
- little hans had a fear of castration which caused him to be anxious which was displaced onto horses
- OCD
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