Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychodynamic Approach
- Basic
Assumptions
- early childhood
experiences determine
adult behaviour and
personality
- focus on the
unconscious mind
- personality/psyche made
up of id, ego and superego
which are in conflict
Anmerkungen:
- id = pleasure principle
ego = reality principle
superego = morality principle
- understanding of ourselves
is distorted by defence
mechanisms
Anmerkungen:
- to avoid psychological pain of truth
- Researchers
- Freud
- Erikson
- stages of development
are across the whole
lifespan
Anmerkungen:
- stage 1 (0-1)
basic trust vs mistrust
trust vs suspicious (insecurity)
- stage 2 (1-3)
autonomy vs shame an doubt
self esteem vs shame
- stage 3 (3-6)
initiative vs guilt
initiate activities vs fear of punishment (guilt about feelings)
- stage 4 (7-12)
industry vs inferiority
sense of achievement and confidence vs feeling inadequate or inferior
- stage 5 (12-18)
identity vs role confusion
strong person identity vs confusion
- stage 6 (20s)
intimacy vs isolation
ability to experience love vs isolation
- stage 7 (20s-60s)
generativity vs stagnation
wider outlook vs lack of growth boredom and self involvement
- stage 8 (60+)
integrity vs despair
sense of satisfaction acceptance of death vs regret (fear of death)
- Methods
- Case studies
- Application to topics
- Gender
- Oedipus complex - boy likes the mother but fears
castration from the father so identifies with him in
order to resolve conflict resulting in gender role
development
- Attachment
- early relationships are important -
Bowlby; infant who doesn't form a
secure attachment will have problems in
later life (inability to form close
relationships or delinquency)
Anmerkungen:
- Erikson's stage 1 trust vs mistrust also links
- forensics
- unresolved conflict from
oedipus complex leads to
weak deviant or harsh
superego
- Impact
- psychoanalysis
- dream analysis
- considers the
importance of
childhood experiences
- Debates
- Psychic determinism
- behaviour caused
by unconscious
drives
- nature - focus
on instinctive
needs
- nurture is secondary -
acknowledges the influence
of different experiences
during psychosexual stages
- Holistic - concentrates on
the individual's life
- reductionist - reduces all
behaviour down to
unconscious motives
- idiographic - concentrates on the
individual's experiences
- nomothetic - generalises
principles to all