Psychodynamic causes of abnormality
Outline ofpsychodynamic causes of abnormality and evaluation of the therapies
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- Created on: 12-12-12 20:36
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- PSYCHODYNAMIC CAUSES OF ABNORMALTY
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHE
- The mind is influenced by 3 forces: the id, the ego and superego. Abnormality is caused an imbalance in the psyche
- PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT
- Abnormality is caused by fixation on psychosexual stages
- Oral stage: oral traits such as smoking, especially when stressed
- Anal stage: possible obsession with cleanliness
- Phallic stage: anxiety and inadequacy
- Genital stage: fixation from early years become active and affect behaviour
- PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPIES-PSYCHOANALYSIS
- Psychoanalysis is a 'talking therapy' that aims to bring unbconscious thoughts into consciencness
- Free Association: client relaxes and speaks freely about whatever comes to mind to encourage unconscious thougts to emerge
- Dream Analysis: the therapist analyses the latent(symbolic) content of dreams to uncover unconscious wish fulfilment
- Psychoanalysis is a 'talking therapy' that aims to bring unbconscious thoughts into consciencness
- DO PYCHODYNAMIC THERAPIES WORK?
- They take a long time and can be very expensive. They seek to identify the hidden problem so judging effectiveness is difficult.
- Grunbaum(1993)-therapy provides a placebo effect, its being treated that helps, not the treatment itself
- Eysenck(1952)-psychodynamic therapies do not work. Recovery relates to natural improvement (spontaneous remission)
- Freud's case studies, e.g. Anno O and the Rat Man, demonstrate the effects of the unconscious behaviour and the success of psychodynamic therapy as a treatment
- THE STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHE
- Free Association: client relaxes and speaks freely about whatever comes to mind to encourage unconscious thougts to emerge
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