Psychodynamic Approach
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- Created on: 11-05-15 12:29
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- Psychodynamic Approach
- Freud
- Personality
- EGO
- Reality principle
- Finds acceptable ways to satisfy basic ID demands
- Develops around the ages 2-3
- Weak ego
- ID to dominate- dangerous immoral behaviour
- Reality principle
- ID
- Pleasure principle
- Born with it, energy of the system
- 2 major drives- sex and aggression
- SUPEREGO
- Perfection principle
- Develops around age 5-6
- Concerned with right and wrong
- Incorporates the morals we learn from parents
- EGO
- Behaviour was influenced be inner forces and unconscious mind
- The mind is like a inceberg
- 1/10 is above the water (conscious)
- 9/10 is below the water (sub concious
- Explored by- Dreams, Slips of the tongue, Free association
- Consists of Preconscious and Unconscious
- Preconscious- Easily bring to conscious from memory
- Unconscious- store of all information. Cannot bring them easily to awareness- influence our behaviour
- Explored by- Dreams, Slips of the tongue, Free association
- Personality
- Transactional Analysis- BERNE
- Transaction- Communication between people
- Three ego states within one person
- Child
- Behaviours, thoughts and feelings replayed from childhood
- Parent
- Behaviours, thoughts and feelings copied from parents or parental figures
- Adult
- Behaviours, thoughts and feelings which are direct responses to the here and now
- Child
- Complementary transcation
- E.g. ADULT state request = ADULTego state response
- Crossed transacations
- CHILD state request = ADULT state response
- We give each other ecognition or 'strokes'
- E.g. children- physical strokes- hugs
- E.g. adults- verbal strokes- praise
- People need strokes- if they don't get positive strokes- they will work purposely to get negative strokes
- Strengths
- In-depth approach to personal problems
- Explore the whole system of an individual
- Comprehensive range of theory
- Explains the influence of experiences
- Explore an individuals emotions
- Offers possibility of psychological growth and develpment
- Clients can explore causes ofp roblems or disrorders
- In-depth approach to personal problems
- Weaknessess
- Theory base isn't accepted by everyone
- Some people don't believe the things Freud said
- Time consuming
- Can take years
- Intensive
- Authority
- Theory base isn't accepted by everyone
- Influence of early relationships
- Bowlby theory of attachment
- Those who didn't have a bond with one of their parents will find it hard to form a relationship in future
- Show destructive behaviour
- Feel anxious
- Those who didn't have a bond with one of their parents will find it hard to form a relationship in future
- Bowlby theory of attachment
- Defense mechanisms
- Repression
- Forcing any unacceptable thoughts and memories into our unconscious mind
- Sublimation
- Shifting thoughts and desires into an activity which is socially acceptable
- Regression
- Displaying childish behaviour which would have been effective when we were younger
- Projection
- Attributuion of our own feelings onto another person
- What we sometimes see in others, we see in ourselves
- Repression
- Freud
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