psychodynamic

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  • psychodynamic approach - refers to dynamics of behaviour with what drives or motivates us to behave in a certain way. Abnormal behaviour is determined by unconscious conflicts which are linked to childhood
  • Spychodynamic approach (short) - it emphasises the activates nature of mental processes and their role in shaping personality and behaviour
  • who is behind the psychodynamic approach - Freud 1900
  • there are three main ideas - superego, Ego and ID which take place indoor conscious, preconscious and unconscious memory
  • conscious memory (iceberg) - small amounts of mental activity we actually know about e.g thoughts and perceptions - small parts of the EGO and Superego
  • Preconscous memory (iceberg)- things we could be aware of if we wanted or tried to. e.g memories or stored knowledge - mostly the Ego and small parts of the Superego
  • Unconscious memory (iceberg) - things we are unaware and cannot become aware of e.g traumatic experiences, fears , shameful experinces - ID and most of Superego
  • it assumes that -
    • human behaviour has unconscious causes that not aware of
    • from birth humans have a need to fulfil basic biological motivations
    • childhood experiences are a really important influence on development of adult personality and psychological disorders
  • ID - born with it and is unconscious , is the animal part of the personality that contains our innate aggressive and sexual desires, wants to be satisfied by whatever possible and obeys the 'pleasure principle', accounts of unreasonable behaviour
  • EGO - acts as a rational part of personality known as 'reality principle
    exists in both conscious and unconscious part of mind
    develops within first three years of life
  • EGO (main job) - Balances the Id and superego to keep our behaviours in line
  • Superego - in both conscious and unconscious parts of the mind
    takes our morals into consideration and involved two make us feel guilty
    develops around 4 to 5 years
    ideas how to behave which adopt from parents
  • Ego defence mechanism - Balances the ID and Superego, if does not = conflict
    gains help against conflict by defence mechanisms
  • Defence mechanisms (EGO) - temporary fixes as are a distortion of reality
    there are 4 types of defence mechanism:
    1. reaction formation
    2. displacement
    3. sublimation
    4. repression
  • Reaction formation - behaving in ways directly opposite to unconscious impulses and feelings
  • displacement - transferring impulses and feelings two an originally neutral of innocent target
  • sublimation - redirection of threatening impulse to something socially acceptable
    e.g playing football instead of punching your boss
  • repression - pushing something into your unconscious (forgetting it)