psychodynamic approach ao3

Question 1

strength of psychodynamic app - explanatory power

Answer 1

very controverisla app but huge influence
on psych and western contempory thought
remained dominat app in first half of 20th cen
used to explain personality dev
abnormal beh
moral dev
and gender
sig in drawing attention to connectio bet childhood expirneves eg rel w parent and later dev

Question 2

weakness of psychodyanmic - case studies

Answer 2

theory based on individual case studies who were often in therapy (dora little hans and rat man)
his observations were detailed and carefully recorded but its not possible to make universal claims ab human nature on studies on a small n.o of ppl who were psychologically abnormal
his interpratations were highly subjective its unlikley taht another reseacher in little hans would come to same conclusion
his methods lack scientific rigour

Question 3

weakness of psychodyamic - untestable concepts

Answer 3

karl popper said app cannot be falsified whereby its not open empirical testing and cannot be disproved so unscientific
eg his concepts like id and oedipus complex occur at an unconcious level so are impossoble to test
so app is pesudoscience - fake science

Question 4

strength of psychodynamic app - practical application

Answer 4

new form of therapy - psychoanlyisis
range of techniques to access unconcious mind eg hypnosis and dream analysis
freudain therapists have claimed succes w many patients sufferinfg from mild neuroses

Question 5

counter point for strenth - psychodynamic app - practical applic

Answer 5

psychoanalysis harmful for patients w schizophrenia by distorting their reality even more

Question 6

weakness psychodynamic - psych determisnism

Answer 6

no such thing as accident - slip of tounge
driven by unconcious forces w deep meaning
all beh even parapraxes det by unconcious conflicts deep rooted in childhood
implied we have no free will or control on beh