Psychodynamic approach to personality

Question 1

What is the affect-trauma model?

Answer 1

• Symptoms of trauma are hidden in unconscious
• Unconscious mind shapes us (personality)
• Development of the “talking cure”
• Unconscious is determined
  Traumatic events (abuse) are suppressed and re-emerge as hysteria

Question 2

What is the topographical model of the mind?

Answer 2

• Unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious
• Importance of dreams
• Importance of conflict
• Psychosexual development
• Erogenous zones

Question 3

What are Freud’s psychosexual stages?

Answer 3

• Oral (<18 mths)
• Anal (2-3 yrs)
• Phallic (4-6 yrs)
• Latency
• Genital

Question 4

What is the structural model of the mind?

Answer 4

• Instinct
• Conflict (shapes personality)
• Id, ego, superego
• Defence mechanisms