Question 5

Question 1

what are the strengths of the psychodynamic approach ?

Answer 1

• nature and nurture (adult personality = innate drives + childhood experiences)
• usefulness (childhood experiences shape us and critical to development
  > helps to understand mental health issues and how they could be to do with childhood or unconscious conflict

Question 2

what are weaknesses of this approach?

Answer 2

• reductionist (oversimplification of tripartite personality and psychosexual stages)
• deterministic (doesn’t allow free will, insinuates our future is already shaped)
  > realistically we can change the way we behave if we wanted to