The Psychodynamic Approach

Question 1

What three levels make up the mind and which affects behaviour the most

Answer 1

Conscious, pre conscious, unconscious-unconscious

Question 2

What is the structure of personality and which acts as a mediator between two

Answer 2

The id, the ego and the superego- the ego

Question 3

What are the five psychosexual stages

Answer 3

Oral, anal, phallic,latency, genital

Question 4

What is the Oedipus complex

Answer 4

Young boys develop feelings towards mothers and view father as a Barrier. This develops into castration anxiety and is resolved through internalisation of fathers morals. This is the development of the superego

Question 5

What are the three defence mechanisms the ego uses

Answer 5

Repression, denial, displacement

Question 6

How does the psychodynamic approach have a gender bias

Answer 6

Freud seemed to ignore female sexuality and how it may differ from male sexuality. His treatments were not effective for female patients

Question 7

How can the psychodynamic approach be argued as not scientific

Answer 7

The unconscious cannot be tested and Freud could’ve interrupted behaviour in any way to fit his theory

He used case studies that cannot be generalised

Question 8

How are freuds techniques such as dream analysis and free association used nowadays

Answer 8

They have developed into talking therapies