Psychodynamic Approach

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Name the three stages of the "iceberg" analogy
Concious, Preconscious, Unconcious
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What is the main concept of the Psychodynamic Approach?
Our behaviour is determined by our experiences of our childhood
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Name the five stages of the psychosexual stages of development
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latent, Genital.
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What are the three aspects of our personality?
Id, Ego, Superego
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What is the instinct of eros?
our life instict, accounts for ****** and self-preserving instinct
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What is the instinct of Thanatos?
Our death instinct, Accounts for aggresion and self-destruction
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Name the four defence mechanisms.
Denial, Displacement, Rationalisation, Sublimation.
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Talk about the case study associated with psychodynamic.
Freud, Ratman: dreams of being tourtered by rats. Freud stated he was having these dreams as a reflection of what he wanted to do to his father.
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Evaluate Freuds "ratman" case study.
-Lacks generalisablity as it was only done on one person. -Unscientific. + His studys are still used today.
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Evaluation the psychodymanic Approach.
+ Freud acknowledged the importance of childhood experiences in determing adlut peronality. +Freuds methods are still used today. -Unscientific. -His case study lack generalisability. -Raises ethical Issues.
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