Psychodimanic

• What does the psychodynamic model believe?

  Mental illness is caused by unconscious memories and feelings manifesting themselves as abnormal behaviour. These feelings are likely to be caused by conflict between the id, ego and superego
• What is an example of the psychodynamic explanation?

  Freud's ideas about the role of sexual trauma and fanatsy:

  • This is the idea that childhood sexual abuse plays a role in almost every case of mental illness
• What is a psychodynamic treatment?

  Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

  • This is where sessions of therapy explore the patient's past and links it to their current symptoms, particularly by focusing on early experiences of loss or rejection when patients are experiencing depression.
  • The aim of this is for patients to recall these experiences and discharge the associated emotions