Psychodynamic Approach
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- Created on: 17-04-13 20:41
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- Psychodynamic Approach
- Basic Assumption
- unconscious mental processes are important
- behavior, thought, and conscious mental processes are determined by unconscious mental processes
- childhood development takes places through psychosexual stages
- Phallic stage
- Anal stage
- Latent stage
- Oral stage
- Genital stage
- the personality had 3 components
- Ego
- Id
- Superego
- Application
- unconscious conflicts
- Psychoanalysis of unconscious conflicts
- can uncover unconscious thoughts e.g. through dream analysis
- Evaluation
- strengths
- Freud recognised the importance of childhood experiences
- recognises the complexity of human thought and behaviour
- defense mechanisms offer plausible explanations for everyday behaviour and experiences
- reports of success leading to the developmentof other psychological therapies
- Limitations
- The unconscious can't be tested
- no scientific evidence
- accused of male orientation
- over-emphasis of the sexual instinct as a motivating factor
- Freud accused of using his previous cases to fit his existing theory
- strengths
- Research Method
- Individual case studies
- Case studies
- Little Hans
- Rat Man
- Basic Assumption
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