EXPLANATIONS FOR ANXIETY PSYCHODYNAMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL

Question 1

Where did Freud suggest anxiety and fear arise from?

Answer 1

Anxiety arises from unconcious conflicts between the id, ego and superego.

Anxiety= repression
Phobia= internal conflict

Question 2

Where did Freud suggest phobias arise from?

Answer 2

Phobias= internal conflict which later manifests into a phobia.

Question 3

What is the ID?

Answer 3

• Part of the unconcious mind
• That controls instincts and desires
• Operating on the pleasure principle

Question 4

What are the psychosexual stages of development?

Answer 4

• 5 development stages of childhood (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital)
• Unresolved conflicts in these stages= lead to personality and behavioural issues in adulthood.

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Question 5

Can you explain the psychodyamic explanation of anxiety?

Answer 5

1) Anxiety arises from unconcious conflicts between the id, ego and superego.
(The ID generates primitive desires, whilst the supergo enforces moral standards)
2) The ego struggles to repress the urges from the ID (that the superego deems as unacceptable) leading to anxiety/neurosis.
3) The ego may use defence mechanisms (repression, displacement, denial) to manage this anxiety
===These conflicts are rooted in early childhood experinces, especially during the psychosexual phases.

ID/EGO ect= different parts of conciousness

A child who experiences strong but forbidden aggressive impulses toward a parent may repress them, leading to generalized anxiety disorder in adulthood.

Question 6

What would be a psychodynamic explanation for phobias?

Answer 6

1) Phobias results from internal conflict.
2) A fear-inducing/ traumatic event during a critical stage of psychosexual development may be repressed leading to unresolved unconcious conflict.
3) The individual displaces their anxiety onto an external object or situation which becomes the phobic stimulus
3) The phobic stimulus symbolises a deeper unconcious fear of conflict.

a fear of punishment for forbidden desires) may later develop a phobia of authority figures, heights, or enclosed spaces as a symbolic representation of this early conflict.