Role of unconscious mind

• What is the psychodynamic approach


  -one of the earliest approaches and its main figure is sigmund freud

  -the approach states that events in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives and shape our personality

  -events that occur in our childhood remain in our unconscious mind and cause problems as adults
• outline the conscious mind


  -Freud suggested that the part of the mind that we know about and are immediately aware of is the conscious mind and is the tip of the iceberg in his iceberg analogy
• outline the preconscious


  -made up of accessible memories and where we can become aware of thoughts and ideas during dreams and slips of tongue

  -known as Freudian slips
• outline the unconscious


  -most of our mind is made up of this

  -storehouse of biological drives and is the driving force for personality and behaviour

  -also contains threatening and disturbing memories that have been repressed and hides it from the conscious mind