The Psychodynamic model of abnormality and treatment

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1. What is the aim of psychoanalysis?

  • To allow the patient to understand the causes of their abnormality
  • To allow the patient to access repressed thoughts and then deal with the conflicts
  • To allow the patient to share their thoughts and feelings about abnormality
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2. What is the psychodynamic model based on?

  • 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

3. 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
  • 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

4. The model uses Freud's stages of development, what are they?

  • The oral, anal, phallic, latency and conflicting stages
  • The oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital stages
  • The oral, senses, phallic, latency and genital stages

5. 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
  • 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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