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Summary Psychology 16 Marker Revision - Psychodynamic Approach
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PAPER: SECTION: PsychoanalysisTOPIC: The approaches
SIX SENTENCE SUMMARY OF KEY IDEAS (K/U) KEY WORD GLOSSARY
1. Psychoanalysis is a part of the psychodynamic approach ID
formed by Sigmund Freud he believed that behaviour can be EGO
formed through the unconscious mind, memories and conflicts SUPEREGO
in mind.
Psychosexual stages
Unconscious
2. Psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and
Conscious
experiences (making the unconscious conscious.)
Pre – conscious
Defence mechanisms
3. In psychoanalysis Freud would have a patient relax, and he
repression
would sit behind them taking notes while they told him about
denial
their dreams and childhood memories. It can involve many
displacement
sessions with the psychoanalyst.
Free association
4. There are various techniques to develop insights into their Inkblot test
behaviour including inkblots, parapraxes, free association, Dream analysis
interpretation (including dream analysis.) Freudian slips
5.
RELEVENT EVIDENCE
Little Hans – 5-year-old boy who developed a fear for horse after seeing one pulling a carriage and it fell over. From this
and reports his father had been sending about Hans sexual matters Freud believed the cart represented the mother and
the horse was the father. He said that Hans had displaced fear of his farther (over the oedipus complex) onto horses.
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For the defence mechanism side, this has ‘intuitive The approach is unscientific in its analysis, many of the
appeal’ meaning most people can accept the idea. (Most concepts are subjective, therefore they are difficult to
of us have experienced those that have been explained.) test scientifically.
The main problem is that Freud used case studies that
focused on one person in detail. It is difficult to generalise
this over a wider population.
Research bias – relies on self-report.
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