assumptions of the psychodynamic approach

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  • Sigmund Freud
  • The idea that we have an unconscious mind which influences our behaviour
  • Most of our mind is made up of the unconscious – a vast storehouse of biological and psychic drives and instincts that has significant influences over behaciour
  • Our conscious mind is unaware of what thoughts and emotions occur in the unconscious
  • However these unconscious thoughts and feeling can be influenced by our conscious mind
  • This is psychic determinism