Psychodynamic Flashcards
3 levels of awareness
Conscious - attention / thought
Preconscious - thoughts / experiences
Unconscious - personality / prot from harm
3 components of personality
ID
Ego
Superego
ID
Selfish - emotional
Pleasure principle
Unconscious
Birth - 18 months
Ego
Balances ID + superego
Rational principle
Conscious
18 months - 3 years
Superego
Moral guide from parental / societal values
Morality Principle
Unconscious
3-6 years
Psychodynamic treatment - psychoanalysis
Aims to release repressed emotions
Cure people by gaining insight to inner conflicts
Unconscious conflicts becoming conscious
Free association - stating everything that comes to mind
Psychosexual stages
Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital
Oral
Environmental interaction through mouth
Eating / biting / sucking
0-1 yrs
Anal
Mastery of personality - now control of muscles
Toilet training
1.5 - 2.5 years
Phallic
Fixation on sexuality - development of morals
Oedipus - desire sex w mother - resent father (castration)
Electra - girls preggers father - penis envy
5-7yrs
Latent
Quieted libido
Intellectual development
7 - puberty
Genital
Sexual maturity
Develop emotionally + socially to fulfil libido in acceptable way
Ego defence mechanisms
Denial - ego refuses to accept reality
Displacement - strong emotion expressed neutral object
Repression - hide strong emotions in unconscious
Strengths of psychodynamic approach
Nomothetic
RW practical app - psychoanalysis
Weaknesses of psychodynamic approach
- Alpha bias
- Psychic determinism
- Lack of scientific methodology
