Thigpen and Cleckley
aim to provide an account of the case of an individual considered to have MPD. 100 hours of interviews over 14 months using psychotherapeutic treatment and occasional hypnosis of 25 year old patient Eve White. project test carried out to gain some insight into unconscious feelings and wishes, drawing of human figures and Rorschach ink blot test, eve's interpretation of ink blot test to suggest what unconscious motives might be causing the behaviour.Found that early childhood experiences might have been the cause of Eve developing MDP. This shows the use of psyhodynamic perspective as it uses psychotherapy treatment such as hypnosis and psychotherapeutic treatment and looks at the unconscious motives and thoughts of Eve white.
Strength. Useful treatment developed such as hypnosis which help certain people. Mundane realism(appears valid to real life) can be transferred to real situations in life that early childhood experience does have an effect on our long term behaviour.
Limitations. relies on case study method, this method is non-scientific and lacks generalisability, only done on one participant e.g. Freud. Construction of Id, ego and superego are hypothetical and cannot be proved. Project personality test lack validity no proof that measuring unconscious thoughts.
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