Psychodymanic Approach To Depression

Question 0

What does Freud suggest about loss and depression? .

Answer 0

Actual loss and symbolic loss leads person to re experience childhood when loss of affection in later life and become dependant and clingy

Question 1

What did Freud describe depression as?

Answer 1

Excessive and irrational grief as a reaction to loss

Question 2

What does the greater loss in childhood indicate for later life

Answer 2

Greater amount of regression as an adult

Question 3

what does Freud state about oral fixations

Answer 3

Dependant personally and can lead to depression

Question 4

What does Freud suggest about the super ego and depression

Answer 4

When the super ego is dominant it causes excessive anxiety and depression.

Question 5

What does wallers supporting study for psychodynamic approach argue ?

Answer 5

Men who had lost fathers during child scored higher on a depression scale than those fathers that hadn’t died

Question 6

What does the criticising study of copper for Freud state ?

Answer 6

Early Loss probably explains only around 10% of depression. Contradictory evidence for Freud