LESSON 2: PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY

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  • Psychoanalysis Therapy - a clinical method for treating psychopathology through patient and psychoanalyst through free flowing conversations 
  • Psychoanalysis Therapy - Find out how unconscious mind influence behavior
  • Victorian morality - zero tolerance toward sexual promiscuity and breaches of the law
  • Victorian morality - austere and non-indulgent 
  • Primacy of science - physiological nature for humans as explanation of behavior
  • Rousseau’s vision of society - society corrupts the pure individual
  • Rousseau’s vision of society - men are limited and corrupted by social arrangements
  • Darwin’s vision of human evolution - Theory of natural selection
  • How did Psychoanalysis come to be?
    • Hysterical Paralysis 
    • Physical Causation
    • More Holistic Approach
  • Hysterical paralysis - Hysteria only occurs in women
  • Physical Causation - Hypnosis as a “cure”
  • More Holistic Approach - Psychosexual Development
  • Psychodynamic - Framework for understanding human behavior and personality development
  • Psychoanalysis - Form of therapy based on the psychodynamic principles
  • psychoanalysis - Goal is to bring unconscious material into conscious awareness  (insights and resolutions)
    • Factors that affect behavior and personality:
    • Unconscious processes 
    • Early childhood experiences
    • Interpersonal relationships
    •  Structure of the mind
  • Important Concepts under Freudian Psychoanalysis:
    1. Early childhood experiences
    2. Unconscious and preconscious motivation
    3. Ego
    4. Defense mechanisms
    5. Ambivalence
  • 3 parts of the mind
    • Unconscious
    • Preconscious
    • Conscious
  • Unconscious - Part of the mind that holds ideas. Thoughts and memories that we cannot access and bring into our conscious awareness
  • Preconscious - Holds ideas, thoughts, and memories that we are not currently thinking of, but if we concentrate, we can bring these to our conscious, or aware part of our mind
  • Conscious - Thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions that we are aware of
  • id - “if it feels good, do it”
  • id - we want our needs to be satisfied
  • id - a completely unconscious, pleasure-seeking, amoral part of the personality that exists at birth, containing all of the basic biological drives: hunger, thirst, self-preservation, and sex, for example.
  • Pleasure principle - the desire for immediate gratification of needs with no regard for the consequences
    • Ego - reality principle: the need to satisfy the demands of the id only in ways that will not lead to negative consequences.
  • Ego - is mostly conscious and is far more rational, logical, and cunning than the id. 
  • As ego develops, so does an awareness of one’s body 
  • Superego - Conscience
  • Superego - that makes people feel guilt, or moral anxiety, when they do the wrong thing.
  • It is not until the conscience develops that children have a sense of right and wrong.
  • Psychosexual development - Relationship between society and the individual
  • Psychosexual development - Freud believed that humans are born amoral
  • Psychosexual development - turned to physiological nature of humans for behavioral explanations
  • Psychosexual development - all human behavior are motivate by sex and aggression
  • Psychosexual development - creates conflict between biological needs and our social environment
  • Oral Stage - Explores the world through mouth
  • Oral Stage - Need for comfort is crucial in this stage, if infant receives too much or too little need satisfaction, this is reflected later in personality development
    • Anal Stage - Potty training
  • Anal stage - More aware of their private part