Psychoanalysis

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Created on: 05-12-17 17:28

What therapy did Freud develop?

Psychoanalysis - designed to access the unconscious such as dream analysis, &is still used by psychotherapists today. Aims to bring unconscious conflicts into the conscious.

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Why do we dream?

the id is seen as responsible for our dreams as it's the source of wishes & fantasies, associated with irrational, instinct driven & pleasure seeking thoughts. These thoughts are unacceptable in adult conscious minds so they're repressed into dreams

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How is the content of our dreams expressed?

Symbolically. Real meaning of a dream is transformed into a more innocent form. These symbols could be meaningless to anyone but a psychoanalyst, who's trained to interpret symbols.

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What was Freud's theory based on?

intensive study of single individuals often in therapy - case studies. Observations = detailed + carefully recorded, however, universal claims about behaviour shouldn't be based on studies w/ small samples of individuals. subjective interpretation

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What did Popper argue about the psychodynamic approach?

It cannot be falsified - theories cannot be empirically tested and be disproved. Falsifying theories means you don't waste time researching it since you can never fully prove a theory

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What's our behaviour determined by? (psychodynamic approach)

All behaviour is driven by unconscious forces, therefore our behaviour is determined by unconscious conflicts. Freewill is an illusion

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