Psychodynamic Perspective

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What is the psychodynamic perspective?
The psychodynamic perspective assumes that all behaviour is caused by unconscious drives and conflicts. These drives are largely id — sexual and aggressive drives
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What are the 3 parts to the personality?
id, ego, super ego and these are all in conflict — with the ego suffering the anxiety of this conflict. Over use of the ego defence mechanisms can lead to mental illness. Personality is also shared by experiences during childhood
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What did Freud develop?
The psychoanalytical theory and founded psychoanalysis,a therapeutic technique that provides insight into unconscious motives and conflicts
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What are the common methods used?
Case studies, projective tests and qualitative data
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What are the assumptions? (normal/abnormal)
All behaviour, whether normal or abnormal, is determined by unconscious forces and drives that we have no conscious awareness of
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What are the assumptions? (personality)
There are three parts to personality (id, ego, super-ego) and these are all in conflict with each other. It is the ego’s job to resolve conflict between the id and the superego
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What are the assumptions? (experiences)
Personality is shaped by experiences during childhood and that all children go through psych-sexual stages in development. Fixation can lead to certain personality types in adulthood
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What are Freudian Slips
A Freudian slip is a verbal or memory mistake thats believed to be linked to the unconscious mind. These slips supposedly reveal the real secret thoughts and feelings that people hold. According to Freud this errors reveal unconscious thoughts
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What is a Projective Test?
a projective test is a personality test designed to let a person respond to ambitious stimuli presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the person onto the test.
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What is a type of Projective Test?
Rorschach Inkblot test, consists of 10 different cards that depict on ambitious inkblot. The participant is shown one card at a time and asked to describe what he or she sees in the image. The responses are recorded by the tester
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When are the Projective tests used?
Projective tests are most frequently used in therapeutic settings. In many cases, therapists use these tests to learn qualitative information about a client.
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What is Freudian Dream Analysis?
content is both the manifest and latent content in a dream, that is, the dream itself as it is remembered, and the hidden meaning of the dreams.
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What does Freud say about these dreams?
Freud’s proposed that those nightly visions are a product of one’s individual psyche and allow for accessibility to part of the mind that are inaccessible through conscious thought
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How can these dreams be understood?
manifest (the information that the conscious individual remembers experiencing) and latent (the hidden meaning of one’s unconscious thoughts, drives and desires)
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Does it support Individual or Situational?
The psychodynamic perspective can be said to support both sides of this debate as it looks at behaviour being caused by an individual’s personality (id,ego,superego) but also takes into account childhood experiences due to the situation
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Does it support Reductionism or Holism?
The psychodynamic perspective can be said to be holistic as in therapy it looks at the individual as a whole taking into account childhood experiences as well as unconscious drives and wishes. However, many other explanations are often overlooked
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Does it support Determinism or Free Will?
The psychodynamic perspective assumes that all behaviour is governed by unconscious drives and motives that an individual has no conscious awareness of and therefore assumes that people have no free will over their behaviour.
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Does it support useful research?
The psychodynamic perspective has explained a wide variety of human phenomenons, such as phobias, memories and mental disorders and has provided many useful practical applications to understand people with mental health problems and had a huge impac
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Does it support psychology as a science?
The psychodynamic perspective tends to be seen as unscientific due to the subjective method used to collect and analyse data
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Is there ethical considerations?
The psychodynamic perspective often uses the case study method so participants can give consent to participate, however, often children are used in research and as children as very suggestible they may be more susceptible to leading questions and per
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What are the strengths of Psychodynamic? (variety)
Explains a wide variety of human phenomenon, such as phobias and mental disorders
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What are the strengths of Psychodynamic? (case study)
Often uses the case study method which allows for rich, in depth data, and a detailed analysis of one person
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What are the strengths of Psychodynamic? (practical applications)
Provides many useful practical applications to understand people with mental health problems and has had a huge impact on the world of counselling, psychotherapy and psychiatry
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What are the weaknesses of Psychodynamic? (validity)
It is very difficult to test the theory of unconscious drives, whatever is not remembered can be said to be repressed, this is unfalsifiable and therefore explanations can lack validity
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What are the weaknesses of Psychodynamic? (generalisability)
Tends to adopt the case study method which uses unrepresentative samples and therefore findings lack generalisability
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What are the weaknesses of Psychodynamic? (reductionistic)
Adopts a reductionistic and deterministic view because it does not take into account other possible reasons for behaviour and rejects the notion of free will
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What are the applications of the psychodynamic perspective? (Hypnotherapy)
Hypnotherapy is a form of psychotherapy used to create subconscious change in a patient in the form of new responses, thoughts and attitudes, behaviours and feelings. It is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.
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What are the applications of the psychodynamic perspective? (effectiveness)
It’s effectiveness has been largely debated with a vast amount of evidence demonstrating the positive implications of hypnotherapy for a wide range of issues (e.g smoking,weight loss, nail biting, anxiety) .
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Why would the 'placebo effect' alter the applications?
some have said that when it does work this is more a result of a placebo effect.
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