Psychodynamic approach to abnormality
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- Created on: 29-04-13 11:29
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- Psychodynamic Approach To Abnormality - Freud
- the human psyche
- conscious awareness
- ego
- the mediator
- defence mechanisms to resolve conflict between ID and superego
- projection
- putting feelings onto someone else
- denial
- ignoring reality and believing something different
- regression
- reverting to an earlier stage in development
- repression
- pushing bad feelings down to the unconscious levelso you don't have to deal with them
- intellectualisation
- arguing with facts, taking the logical approach
- displacement
- putting feelings onto an object
- projection
- operates on reality principle
- superego
- pre-conscious awareness
- ego
- the mediator
- defence mechanisms to resolve conflict between ID and superego
- projection
- putting feelings onto someone else
- denial
- ignoring reality and believing something different
- regression
- reverting to an earlier stage in development
- repression
- pushing bad feelings down to the unconscious levelso you don't have to deal with them
- intellectualisation
- arguing with facts, taking the logical approach
- displacement
- putting feelings onto an object
- projection
- operates on reality principle
- superego
- pre-conscious awareness
- moral conscience
- develops after 5 years
- pre-conscious awareness
- accomidation to environment
- superego
- develops after one year
- ego
- moral conscience
- develops after 5 years
- pre-conscious awareness
- accomidation to environment
- superego
- develops after one year
- ego
- unconscious
- ID
- innate
- operates on the pleasure principle
- influenced by sexual energy
- perminately conflicting, wanting opposite things
- if the conflict is not resolved it will manifest itself as disturbed behaviour resulting in mental illness
- case study: Anna O
- if the conflict is not resolved it will manifest itself as disturbed behaviour resulting in mental illness
- ID
- conscious awareness
- psychosexual stages of development
- 1. oral stage
- preoccupation with putting things in mouth
- 2. anal stage
- fecies - expelling/ keeping in
- 3. phallic stage
- Oedipus complex
- boy experiences sexual desire for mother - jealous of father, thinks father will castrate him
- case study: little Hans
- boy experiences sexual desire for mother - jealous of father, thinks father will castrate him
- Electra complex
- women have penis envy - want to get pregnant and have a boy
- exploration, masturbation
- Oedipus complex
- 4. latency stage
- exploration lies dormant
- 5. genital stage
- adult stage, experimenting with sex
- 1. oral stage
- Evaluation
- research is sexist and culturally biased
- oedipus complex was much more developed than electra complex, majority of application/ focus on male behaviour
- Freud was male and living in victorian culture - females viewed as unequal and second class citizens - approach may be product of time and only relevant to males - difficulty in applying approach to females and mental illness occurring today
- oedipus complex was much more developed than electra complex, majority of application/ focus on male behaviour
- based on case study evidence
- little hans and anna o, info obtained using interviews and observations
- case studies and observations can produce detailed data however only reflects behaviour of individual who may be displaying unique characteristics
- different mental illness symptoms presented in different ways so difficult to generalise
- freud neglects adult experience
- distorted retrospective recall
- diagnosis of illness based on inaccurate info
- distorted retrospective recall
- freud neglects adult experience
- different mental illness symptoms presented in different ways so difficult to generalise
- case studies and observations can produce detailed data however only reflects behaviour of individual who may be displaying unique characteristics
- little hans and anna o, info obtained using interviews and observations
- lack of research evidence obtained using scientific method
- freud's concepts are abstract i.e. id, ego, superego - forces driving behaviour
- unconscious, pre conscious and conscious - Fisher and Greenburg (1996) reviewed attempts to test freud's theories, some positive support found
- difficult to operationally measure his ideas - no way of saying whether approach is true or not, cannot disprove it
- positive and negative results obtained experimentally can support his ideas as they may be showing support for defence mechanisms
- difficult to operationally measure his ideas - no way of saying whether approach is true or not, cannot disprove it
- unconscious, pre conscious and conscious - Fisher and Greenburg (1996) reviewed attempts to test freud's theories, some positive support found
- freud's concepts are abstract i.e. id, ego, superego - forces driving behaviour
- ethics
- not the adults fault as it results from childhood experience
- is it your fault if your child goes on to have mental illness?
- not the adults fault as it results from childhood experience
- research is sexist and culturally biased
- the human psyche
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