Psychological Explanations (Psychodynamic Explanations) Flashcards
What are the two psychodynamic explanations?
The super ego
Bowlby’s MDH
what does freud’s theory of psychoanalysis believe?
believes that the personality develops from three components: the id, ego and superego, each of which demands gratification.
What is the id and how is it related to offending behaviour?
-Pleasure Principe, immediate gratification
-in a healthy person the ego balances the id and the super ego, in a criminal the id is dominant so the ego fails to balance the id and the super ego
why is the superego likely to be related to offending behaviour?
because it is concerned with right and wrong.
How an underdeveloped (weak) super-ego develop and what does this mean?
-a same sex parent is absent during the phallic stage (when the superego is developing), the child cannot internalise that person’s attitudes as there is no opportunity for identification.
-The consequence is that the person has little control over anti-social behaviour and is dominated by their instinctual id impulses.
How an deviant super-ego develop and what does this mean?
-Normal identification with the same sex parent during the phallic
stage (when the superego is developing) means that the child takes on the same moral code/attitudes as that parent.
-The consequence is that if the parent’s behaviour is deviant, the small child adopts similar deviant behaviours and morals.
As part of bmdh, what did he believe?
he believed that offender behaviour
was a result of affectionless psychopathy
What are affectionless psychopaths?
individuals who will struggle to form relationships with others, have an inability to empathise with their victims and lack remorse for their criminal actions.
What is affectionless psychopathy due to?
-individuals who will struggle to form relationships with others, have an inability to empathise with their victims and lack remorse for their criminal actions.
-they will see the world as a hostile place making criminal behaviour much more likely.
