Psychodynamic Approach Flashcards
What are the three structures of personality?
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
What is the Id?
- Pleasure principle
- Present since birth
- Completely unconscious
- Not capable of moral or logical thinking
What is the Ego?
- Reality Principle
- Develops at 2 years
- Conscious
What is the Superego?
- Morality Principle
- Emerges at 5 years
- Unconscious
- Sense of right and wrong
What are the three types of defence mechanisms?
- Repression
- Denial
- Displacement
What is repression?
Pushing memories into the unconscious so they seem forgotten
What is denial?
Refusing or rejecting reality
What is displacement?
Feelings redirected to an alternative safe place
What are the psychosexual stages?
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Latency
- Genitals
What is the oral stage?
- Mouth satisfaction
- 0-1 years
- Cause smoking, over dependant and gullible people
What is the anal stage?
- Potty training
- 1-3 years
- Become disorganised, messy or very clean
What is the phallic stage?
- Development of morals and gender identity
- 3-5 years
- Unconscious sexual desires
What is the latency stage?
- Issues of previous stages repressed
- 5-12 years
What is the genitals stage?
- Attractes to opposite sex
- 12+ years
What is the case study?
Little Hans
What did little hans show ?
phobia of horses which was a defence mechanism to displace his fear of his father
What is the role of the unconscious?
Where painful childhood experiences are represeed
How can the unconscious be accessed?
A process called free association
What are the three consciouses?
- Conscious
- Pre conscious
- Unconscious
What are the assumptions of the psychodynamic approach?
- Behaviour is influenced by unconscious forces
- Early childhood experiences are important
- Focus on person as a whole
