Knowledge

• Psychodynamic means “change in mind“theory
• Freud believes criminal behaviour can be explained in terms of inner conflicts.
• Inner conflicts- different bits of the mind are fighting each other.
• What makes people criminals is unconscious and beyond our awareness.
• Conflicts occur between ego, superego, and ID.
• The “iceberg” structure implies most of our mind and personality we don’t even know or recognise. Most of our motivations is unconscious.