psychodynamic Approach
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- Created on: 15-11-12 16:10
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- Psychodynamic
- Assumptions
- All human behaviour can be explained in terms of inner conflict of the mind.
- Unconscious mind determines behaviour
- Personality is divided into 3 parts Id/Ego/Superego
- We develop through 5 psychosexual stages through birth to adult hood- These stages create adult personality
- Strengths
- First theory of child development
- 1st person to say childhood has an effect on adulthood
- e.g becoming fixated in the oral stagethrough force feeding/deprivation can lead to an adult who is agressive, smokes, bites nails
- Huge impact on the world of counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatry
- Limitations
- Difficult to test because his theories arent scientific- Non-falsifiable
- He uses case studie, they are unique one off moments in time so the results cant be generalised or replicated
- Controversial idea that children are sexual
- Effectiveness of therapy has been questioned
- Assumptions
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