psychodynamic approach ao1 Flashcards
Basic assumptions of psychodynamic app
. Unconscious activity is the key determinate of how we behave
. We posses innate drives (instincts) that motivate behaviour
. Tripartite personality comprised of ID superego and ego
. Childhood has sig importance in determining our personality when we reach adult hood
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What is the unconscious
Storehouse of biological drives
Eg Sex hunger sleep
Holds repressed and threatening memeories
Can access these through parapraxes
It’s the driving motivation force behind behaviour and personality
Protects conscious mind from trauma and conflict
Describe ID
Pleasure principle
Driving us to satisfy selfish urges and desires
Exists form birth
Describe superego
Morality principle
Concerned wiht keeping to moral norms and acting in line with societal standards
Develops from years 4-5
Controls ID w feelings of guilt
Describe ego
Acts rationally
According to reality principle
Balancing ID and Superego
Develops 2-4 years
Utilises defence mech to handle conflict bet ID and super ego
What can ego using defense mechanisms over time lead to
Can lead to mental disorders
Distorting reality
3 defense mech
Repression
Displacement
Denial
define repression
Burying unpleasant thoughts
Eg childhood trauma repressed so
Forgotten
Define displacement and give example
Emotions directed away from source toward other things
Eg punching the wall
define denial and give example
threataning thoughts ignored or treated as if its not true eg businessman looses business over financial issues but still gets ready for work as if everything is ok.
who came up w psychosexual stages
sigmund freud
backround on psychosexual stages
frued interested on infant sexuality in child dev
what case study did freud focus on and what did is play a key role in
little hans
key role in odedipus complex and castration complex
what did freud think personality dev through
5 psychosexual stages which we progress through
each stage w a particular characteristic beh