psychodynamic approach
- Created by: Bethany Cooling
- Created on: 01-06-18 12:15
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- Psychological Explanations: Psychodynam-ic Explanations
- Inadequate superego's can lead to immoral behaviour
- The superego is guided by moral judgement
- If the superego is inadequate then the Id is given free rain (pleasure principle)
- Criminal behaviour is inevitable
- Three Types
- Weak, Deviant, Over-Harsh
- Weak Superego
- Developed from the absence of a same-sex parent during the phallic stage
- The child cannot form a superego due to no opportunity for identification
- Developed from the absence of a same-sex parent during the phallic stage
- Deviant Superego
- When the child internalises deviant values
- E.g. raised by criminal parents, deviant behaviour will be acceptable and no experience of guilt
- When the child internalises deviant values
- Over-Harsh Superego
- Criminal acts to satisfy need for punishment
- Individual crippled by guilt and anxiety
- Criminal acts to satisfy need for punishment
- Failure to establish early childhood bond with mother leads to affectionless psychopathy
- Lack of empathy and guilt
- Maternally deprived individuals more likely to commit criminal acts
- 44 thieves
- Supports maternal deprivation theory
- 14 thieves showed affectionless psychopathy
- 12 of which had prolonged separation from mothers in infancy
- Inadequate superego's can lead to immoral behaviour
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