transferring feeling from source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target
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defence mechanism - projection
project behaviour onto someone else
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defence mechanism - regression
back to stages of development
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Oedipus complex
phallic stage - incestuous feeling towards mother, hatred to dad due to love of mom, boys fear father will contrite them so repress feelings identifying with father. e.g. Hands replaced fear onto horses
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Electra complex
girls have penis envy, desire father, hate mother, give up desire for father and change primary love object to have a desire for a baby
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main evaluation points of psychodynamic approach
explanatory power, practical application, psychic determinism, case study method, untestable concepts
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evaluation of psychodynamic approach - explanatory power
explains personality development and abnormal behaviour influencing western contemporary thought
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evaluation of psychodynamic approach - practical application
form of therapy - psychoanalysis to access unconscious however not suitable for serious illness e.g. schizophrenia
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evaluation of psychodynamic approach - psychic determinism
explains all behaviour by unconscious conflicts rooted in childhood
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evaluation of psychodynamic approach - case study method
subjective and lacked scientific vigour as was based on small number of psychologically abnormal people
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evaluation of psychodynamic approach - untestable concepts
not open to empirical testing, can't access unconscious - PSEUDOSCIENCE
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
part of mind we are unaware about
Back
define unconscious
Card 3
Front
we can be aware of it if we tried
Back
Card 4
Front
entirely unconscious, demand immediate gratification (pleasure seeker) formed in oral stage
Back
Card 5
Front
reality principle, balance id and super ego, formed in anal stage
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