Conflict in development, Freud's division of personality in the id, ego and superego
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The model uses Freud's stages of development, what are they?
The oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages
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What does the model suggest causes abnormality?
Conflicts from childhood or at certain stages of development, anxiety from these conflicts is repressed into the unconscious mind but are again triggered in adulthood leading to psychological disorders
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What is used as treatment in the psychodynamic model?
psychoanalysis
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What is the aim of psychoanalysis?
To allow the patient to access repressed thoughts and then deal with the conflicts
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What is meant by the psychoanalytical technique: hypnosis?
The patient enters an alternate mental state in which they can access repressed thoughts. Freud gradual lost faith in this technique as he found it difficult to hypnotise people
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What is meant by the psychoanalytical technique: free association?
The patient is given a cue word and is asked to say what memories and ideas come into their mind, by doing this repressed thoughts emerge giving an insight into unconscious problems caused by abnormality
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What is meant by the psychoanalytical technique: dream analysis?
It was thought that a certain part of the mind keeps repressed thoughts in the unconscious but this part is less active during sleep, thus these thoughts are likely to appear in dreams
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What are the strenghts of the psychodynamic model?
It suggests disorders may be linked to unresolved conflicts due to biological needs, it offers methods of therapy which allow the patient to understand and resolve their problems and it was the first theory focused on psychological causes of disorder
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What are the weaknesses of the psychodynamic model?
Freud's claims are based on sunjective interpretations which are hard to scientifically test, psychoanalysis may take a long time and is expensive, childhood conicts uncovered may be distressing and possibly inaccurate and the focus is on the past
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The model uses Freud's stages of development, what are they?
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The oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages
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What is used as treatment in the psychodynamic model?
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