Psychodynamic Flashcards
Unconscious Processes
important influences coming from the mind = no direct awareness
Psychodynamic conflict
Parts of the mind are in constant dynamic struggle/ important when understanding behaviour
Emotional Drives
The drive creating Psychic energy that will build up and create tension and anxiety if can not be released
Development
personality is shaped by relationships, experience and conflict
ink block test
Free association
Psychoanalysis
- Form of Psycho therapy
- Developed by Sigmund Freud
- helps patients become aware of long repressed unconscious feelings
Hypnosis
bring repressed memories into consciousness
Ice berg analogy
top= perception thought (Id)
middle= pre conscious level (Ego)
Bottom= unconscious level (Super-ego)
Instinctual Drives
Towards survival and replacement of energy requires translation into more specific terms such as food we love
Strengths?
Simplistic information
Useful- lots of insight into issues
Can draw out in tensive treatment
Long term deeply analytical therapy
Longterm results
Weaknesses?
Low population validity
Unscientific
Not based on enough quantitative experimental research
Subjective interpretation of study results
