Psychological Approach to Psychopathology

Question 1

What are the 4 stages of psychosexual development?

Answer 1

• Oral Stage
• Anal Stage
• Phallic Stage
• Genital Stage

Question 2

The mind is influenced by three forces - what are they?

Answer 2

• The ID
• The ego
• The superego

Question 3

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 3

• It is a ‘talking therapy’ that aims to bring subconsious thoughts into the consciousness

Question 4

When does resistance occur?

Answer 4

• When the client finds things difficult to talk about

Question 5

Name two techniques used in psychoanalysis?

Answer 5

• Free Association

- Dream Analysis

Question 6

What is free association?

Answer 6

• When the client relaxes and speaks freely about whatever comes to mind to encourage unconscious thoughts to emerge

Question 7

What is dream analysis?

Answer 7

• when the therapies analyses the latent (symbolic) content of dreams to uncover unconscious wish fulfilment

Question 8

Name some problems with psychodynamic therapies?

Answer 8

• They take a very long time - successful results may be due to people naturally getting better over time
• expensive (not available on the NHS)
• -

Question 9

Research into the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapies?

Answer 9

• Grunbaum (1993) - therapy provides a placebo effect. It is being treated that helps, not the treatment itself.
• Freud’s case studies e.g “rat man” and “Anna O” demonstrate the effects of the unconscious on conscious behaviour and the success of psychodynamic therapy as a treatment