Psychodynamic Perspective

I primarily believe in the behavioral perspective. However, on the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder I find that I favor the psychodynamic perspective. OCD is classified as a long lasting disorder, in which a person has recurring thoughts and behaviors they feel need to be completed repetitively. I tend to favor the behavioral perspective because I agree with the idea that outside factors influence a persons responses and behaviors. Throughout childhood and even more on, one is constantly taught about their environment and they learn everything they need to know in life through this perspective. Whether that be conditioning a child as they grow, so that they are able to learn and differentiate good from bad through reward and punishment. To understanding why an individual acts a certain way and what

Anxiety is a feeling of numerous of things, whether its danger or a sense of threat and even butterfly’s when becoming nervous. In Fact, anxiety disorder was discovered in the 1980s by the American Psychiatric Association. In my opinion, everybody has had a moment of anxiety, it’s a major part of life. Due to the fact, that life has a lot to do with social interaction and based on human characteristics. Many people with this disorder, feels the need to act upon something. Anxiety, helps the mind get ready or be prepared in certain situations. On the other hand, some people experience panic, fear and even nightmares. This happens when the thoughts in the mind become over whelming. This illness can also just run in the family as a genetic trait. In fact, I think anxiety is most common in women. Especially, women that are pregnant, with all the stress and feeling judged by becoming bloated with the baby and fluids. Some even go through the depression stage after the baby. At the same time, when a baby is born, some babies are frightened easy or their nerves become very

They are many theories in psychology that can be used to “understand” behaviour, two theories I am going to look at are; Psychodynamic approach and the humanistic approach. I will discuss these 2 psychological theories of development and explain how it accounts for the psychological development, health and behaviour of the individual.

My practice is driven by and laden with traces of the values of capacity for change and growth, the voice of the individual, and curiosity. The belief in the capacity for change and growth motivates me to sit with some clients that others consider difficult and attempt to assist them in seeing the prospect of change while maintaining a respect for their decision. The value of the voice of the individual drives me to open myself to the many possibilities that the client considers and hear things from their perspective. This value causes me to be invested in the client voicing whatever they deem necessary and working through what they voice to build the solutions they have created. The value of the voice of the individual also inspires me to

My first memory of experiencing anxiety was during my parents’ divorce. I was afraid of what would happen to my sisters and me. In addition to my parents’ divorce, I also started to feel anxious in school because I did not fit in with my peers due to having Asperger’s syndrome and feared that they would bully me. In fact, I ended up experiencing bullying all throughout elementary school, and it only stopped once I started high school. My major source of anxiety and stress throughout my childhood and

During casual conversations I have often been quoted as stating” We are all a bunch of big kids”. This comment stems from my personal belief that adults are influenced during childhood experiences and these experiences greatly impact their adulthood. To elaborate in depth regarding my personal beliefs; I will examine the psychodynamic and developmental perspectives, how they relate to my personal life and reflect on how each perspective is been used in my professional life.

In addition to the diagnosis of psychology there are perspectives and treatments that follow these. The first perspective being the behavioral perspective and following that would be the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspectives. The third perspective of psychology follows suit with the biological perspective and the fourth being the cognitive. These perspectives all take a different route on explaining psychology and were developed by a number of different characters throughout history. To start off, the behavioral perspective emphasizes the study of one’s behavior and the role that they play in an environment.

From the neurobiological perspective, outside factors mentioned may have affected the way her brain functions, factors such as the death of her father and the departure of her only child. These events may have lead to her developing a sense of loneliness and depression, and which may have led to other disorders that caused her to not function the same as she has before. The “variety” of life changes may have caused a change in routine or other, making her feel disorganized in her life, which may have translated into the way that she teaches.

This assignment will be analytically comparing and contrasting the Biological, psychodynamic and Behaviourist psychological perspectives. This will be based on their different explanations of human behaviour and the management of mental illness in relation to practical application.

An anxiety disorder could occur from the malfunction of this system. There are many reasons as to why it could malfunction like genetics, lack of

Psychodynamic Perspective is known as “dynamic psychology”. The study of human feelings that may have been brought on early on in a situation. It helps in figuring out why an adult thinks and

The true cause of anxiety has yet to be discovered and it is necessary to know what causes people to have this disorder. This article describes what occurs genetically when a child is being conceived. It expresses how “genes make the right proteins at the right time” (What causes anxiety? 4). This means that when a child is being created, each parent’s genes are being combined. “But if the genes get it wrong, they can alter your biology in a way that results in your mood becoming unstable. This biological tendency toward anxiety man be latent for years until an exceptionally stressful event triggers its expression” (What causes anxiety? 4). Anxiety is already a very depressing and life altering condition and some individuals have to cope with

ANNA O • Anna O (real name Bertha Pappenheim) was not actually Freud’s patient, she was a patient of Freud’s older friend Josef Breuer. However, Anna O can still claim the distinction of being the founding patient of psychoanalysis because Freud developed the first stages of his theory based on her case. It is, therefore, worth knowing a few details of her case. At the time of her illness, Anna was 21 years old and until the illness struck she had been healthy and intelligent and had shown no signs of neurosis1 . However, her feelings had always been exaggerated and she could be moody and she day-dreamed a great deal. Her illness fell into several phases: 1. Latent incubation - the early

With Wilhelm Wundt opening the first experimental psychology lab in 1879, psychology could emerge as its own discipline. From being a branch of philosophy understood as ‘Experimental Philosophy’ Wundt enabled psychology to become what we know of it today being the scientific study of the human mind’s functions, especially those affecting behaviours. Following Wundt’s lab opening different approaches and perspectives began to arise as psychology developed. Sigmund Freud published ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ in the 1900s; establishing the psychodynamic approach,

“First was the emphasis on the psychological explanation of behavior which is defined as; the purposes which under line behavior and the goals toward or away from behavior is directed. Second is the emphasis on the total situation which is defined as; all psychological events are conceived to be a function of life space, which consists of the person and the environment viewed as one constellation of interdependent factors. Third is the emphasis on systematic rather than historical causation which is defined as; psychological events have to be explained in terms of the properties of the field which exists at the time when the events occur. The fourth and final is the emphasis is the dynamic approach which states; accepts the view that living systems tend to maintain a dynamic equilibrium in relation to their environments.” (Encyclopedia.com)