The Psychodynamic model of abnormality and treatment

1. What is meant by the psychoanalytical technique: hypnosis?

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
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
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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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
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

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
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
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

Conflicts from adulthood or at certain stages of development, anxiety from these conflicts is repressed into the unconscious mind but are again triggered in adulthood leading to physical disorders
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
Conflicts from childhood or at certain stages of development, anxiety from these conflicts is repressed into the unconscious mind but are again triggered in childhood leading to psychological disorders

Conflict in adulthood, Freud's division of personality in the id, ego and superego
Conflict in development, Freud's division of personality in the id, ego and superego
Conflict in development, Freud's division of personality in the anal, oral and phallic stage

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