Psychodynamic

Nota:

• The mind is split into 3 –the preconscious, unconscious and conscious. The unconscious forms a large part of our mental life, and can influence our thinking and physical well-being. Childhood experiences have an effect on our behaviour in later life, as they are very important in shaping our adult personality.   

1. studies
   1. little hans/freud

      Nota:

      • to test the theroy of psychosexual development on little hans 
      1. case studys

         Nota:

         • in depth a qualitative
      2. longtitudinal
      3. psychoanalysis was carried out by his father
      4. his problems..

         Nota:

         • when he was young had a fasination with his widdler and once his mother threatened to chop it off leading him to have castration anxieties and repress his pleasurable feelings. Loved his mother and hated his father as he had to share him, also hated his sister who he had to share his mum with, he told his dad that he wished his mum would drop her in the bath,at 4.5 he developed a fear of white horses iwth black around the mouth freud said this was symbolic of his father who had a black moustache. when he found it his mother had no widdler he thought it had been cut off and that his would also be cut off if he touched it. hans phobioa increased when he witnessed a horse fall down and die whilst pulling a bus freud said this was symbolic of his father, he wanted his father to die like a horse and was symbolic of a mother giving birth, like his sister,  he had a dream about a plumber coming and giving him a bigger bum and widdler = the end of the odepius complex and he no longer had a phobia 
2. reductionist

   Nota:

   • not very as looks at mental state and childhood experiences but still ignors biology 
3. deterministic

   Nota:

   • we all go through the same compex. our childhood has a large effect in later life 
4. individual

   Nota:

   • based soley on indiviual 
5. ethics
6. useful

   Nota:

   • hard to generalise due to tiny sample 
7. reliability

   Nota:

   • based on one individual and if same was done on different individual would gain completly different results. not standardised
8. scientfic

   Nota:

   • very subjective, not in any way objective, not standardised not reliable, very unscietfic