psychodynamic approach

• psychodynamic approach - studying how unconscious psychological processes shape behaviour
• founded by freud
• freud founded psychoanalytic therpy from this approach
• 3 aspects of the mind - conscious - preconscious - unconscious
• conscious - what we are aware of
• preconscious - can be recalled
• unconscious - repressed and can't access
• structure of personality - id - ego - superego
• id - pleasure principle - satisfy own needs and desires - from birth
• ego - relaity prinnciple - balences other two aspects - from 2- 5
• superego - morality principle - focuses on obeying rules - 3 - 5 years
• defence mechanisms - reduce anxiety felt by ego througb distortions
• defence mechansism - repression - denial - displacement
• repression - making a memory inaccessable
• denial - redusing to accept reality
• displacement - moving emotions to an alternate source
• psychosexual stages - childrens development
• oral - fixation on mouth - 0 -18 months
• anal- withholding or dispelling faeces gives pleasure - 18 moths - 3.5 years
• phallic - genital fixation - 3-6 years
• latent - repressed sexual urges - 6 to puberty
• genital - awakened sexual urges - puberty to adult
• little hans - freud case study - oedipus complex - fear of horses
• oedipus compex - boys desire their mother and see their father as a competitor - feat of castration from father so move on to other femal targets
• electra complex - girls desire their father due too havign penis envy - this desire is redirected at the desire for a child
• pro - influence on bowlby
• pro - therpay app
• con - determinism
• con - unscientific