psychodynamic approach

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    • 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
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