psychodynamic

• whos the main face of the psychodynamic approach?

  Sigmund freud
• key assumption: our unconscious mind is key in determining how we behave.
• personality and mental health problems can be traced back to the first 5 years.
• hedonistic is gratifying the ID's desires
• sources of pleasure are determined by the location of libido - sexual or psychic pleasure.

  as the child moves through these stages, the location of their libido changes.
• Old Age People Like Guinness:

  Oral

  Anal

  Phallic

  Latent

  Genital
• Oral: birth-1 yr

  Anal: 1-3yr

  Phallic: 3-6yrs

  Latent: 6-puberty

  Genital: puberty-adulthood
• Oral - mouth, sucking, swallowing/ dependency, aggression, smoking

  Anal - withholding, expelling feces/ toilet training, OCD, generosity.

  Phallic - masturbation/ relationship with parents, self-obsession, envy

  Latent - little to no sexual desire

  Genital - sexual intercourse
• Electra complex:

  • 3-6 years old
  • girl wants the father and is angry with the mother for castrating her.
  • penis envy
  • girls identity is different to mothers - feminine superego is weaker
• Oedipus complex:

  • 3-6yrs
  • boy feels sexual attraction for mother and hostility/fear towards father (fear of castration)
  • boy identifies with father, leading to development of masculine gender identity
• ways of accessing the unconscious:

  • dream analysis
  • inkblot test
  • word association
• Ego:

  • no sense of right or wrong
  • mediates between id and superego
  • makes Id's desires happen at no expense to others.
• Id:

  • 100% unconscious
  • self-serving, immediate gratification
  • pleasure principle
  • fully developed at birth
  • 'sex and death principle'
• Superego:

  • almost 100% unconscious
  • ensures we take moral high ground
  • believes we should do no wrong
• Little Han's proved what theory?

  Oedipus complex
• Little Han's had a dream of giraffes and was scared of horses.

  it was believed horses resembled his father - the reigns being his mustache.

  he was obsessed with his 'widdler' and his mother said she would castrate him if he didn't stop playing with it.
• how did Freud get the research about Little Hans?

  through his father, he sent him letters
• limitations of Little Hans:

  • his father worked for Freud and sent letters as his form of observation - bias
  • all theory-based