Psychodynamic Approach
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- Created on: 08-11-21 00:03
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PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
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- Focuses on studying how uconscious psychological processes shape behaviour
- Processes are thought to form during early childhood experience
Founded by SIGMUND FREUD
- The unconscious - not open to awareness, contians socially unacceptable thoughts, painful emotions, drives/instincts and repressed memories
STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY
Id: PLEASURE principle
Present from BIRTH
Satisying needs/desires
Ego: REALITY principle
Develops from 2 YEARS
Balances id and superego; rational thought
Superego: MORALITY principle
Develops from 3-5 YEARS
Obeying learnt rules of society, guilt
Defence mechanisms - unconscious processes that reduce anxiety felt by the Ego by distorting reality
Repression - making a memory inaccessible to consciousness
Denial - refusing to accept reality of situation
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