Psychodynamic Perspective Overview
- Created by: Lorna
- Created on: 05-04-13 16:16
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- Psychodynamic Perspective
- Assumption
- An individual has 2 mental states
- Conscious and unconscious
- Unconscious mind influences beh. (esp. mental disorders)
- Due to unresolved conflicts resulting in defence mechanisms
- Repression, Denial, Rationalisation, Projection, Reaction Formation, Intellectualisation, Regression, Displacement, Sublimation
- Due to unresolved conflicts resulting in defence mechanisms
- Personality is shaped by childhood experiences
- An individual has 2 mental states
- Studies
- Freud
- Little Hans
- Oedipus complex?
- Phobia of horses
- Little Hans
- Thigpen and Cleckley
- Eve White, Eve Black, Jane
- Freud
- Strengths
- Useful
- Basic psychodynamic ideas are part of everyday vocab.
- Has had huge effect on psychological thinking
- Supports many successful therapeutic interventions
- Useful
- Weaknesses
- Very subjective
- Much based only on ideas
- Hard to prove/disprove
- Research base is often small
- Early theories may not be relevant now
- Assumption
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