Psychodynamic Psychology: Sociocultural And Humanistic Perspectives

Psychodynamic theory, although it is outdated, is the foundation for what we know as counseling today. It was first created by Freud and later expanded by Erikson and Jung. The focus of this therapy is mainly bringing the feelings and desires of the unconscious into consciousness and the unconsciousness’ role in behavior. It also postulates that there are different stages of personality development across the life span. Freud’s focus was on psychosexual development while Erikson used psychosocial stages as well. It concentrates mostly on childhood experiences, arguing that examination of the past leads to character development. This examination of the past and the unconscious can be accomplished through a number of techniques including

Sigmund Freud developed over his career several theories that focused on psychosexual development and psychodynamic theory which is the study if personality through conscious and unconscious. Freuds argument was that conscious and unconscious often conflicted with one another and that life has an agreement involving the dynamic balance of different forces. Freud researched and produced that there were three different minds which included psychological aspect inheritance and present birth, the ego that provides direction when in the environment, and the

To begin, the psychodynamic theory is based on Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and primarily focuses on the role of the unconscious mind in the development of personality. The psychodynamic theory includes the idea that people have defense mechanisms. Psychological defense mechanisms are ways of dealing with anxiety through unconsciously distorting one’s perception of reality, such as denial and repression. In addition, sexual impulses play a large role in the psychodynamic theory. According to Freud, part of personality is outside of awareness, unconscious. The unconscious has difficulty retrieving material and is well below the surface of awareness. Also, the past is important in the psychodynamic theory. There are some advantages and disadvantages to this theory. For instance, the advantages are: psychodynamic theory recognizes the importance of childhood; other theorists after Freud have revised the approach to be less controversial, and this theory has been

Psychodynamic theories of Sigmund Freud focus on how a child’s instinctual mind interacts with his or her social environment and the important people in it to produce many characteristics and behaviors. There are the structure of the mind and the structure of personality.

This perspective involves examining the physical aspects that affect a living thing’s behavior such as the brain, nervous system, and genetics.

The psychodynamic approach founded by Sigmund Freud was a lot of our behavior, is determined by unconscious thoughts, memories. Freud developed the first complete theory of mind and is the founder of a series of techniques called psychoanalysis. This aims to explore the unconscious mind by using techniques, such as free association, dream interpretation etc. and then and be used treat abnormal behavior. Psychodynamic psychology ignores the aspects of science and instead focuses on trying to get inside the head of individuals to make logic of their relationships, experiences and how they see the world. (McLeod, 2007). Freud’s theories

Psychodynamic Approaches were derived from Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory. He believed that many of the things that we do are not just derived from our consciousness but also from our sub-consciousness. He believed that everything that we do as children from

The Psychodynamic perspective in Psychology examines the theory that our personality and mental disorders are created outside of our awareness by processes in our unconscious mind. It examines the idea that our unconscious outweighs our actual consciousness and that there is more than what we credit ourselves for and/or are potentially unconsciously blocking. One of the best known approaches of this perspective is by using psychoanalysis. This approach highlights and evaluates dreams, the slip of the tongue and free association. Free association is a theorized step in psychoanalysis where one is in a relaxed state and speaks whatever is on their mind for a period of time and then analyzed to attempt to connect the dots from experiences in our past that are unconsciously hidden by us. It could be said that this method is like tossing puzzle pieces across the floor and using each piece to another until the right jigsaw piece is found. This helps the patient understand the why and how of an issue and is left to the analyst to explain and help evolve the next steps of resolution to the newly understood information. In a sense this promoted that talking about your problems and fears would start to dissipate the mental abnormalities over time by connecting the issues of today by what has happened in the past that has created the present personality or behavior. This perspective can best be explained that the mind is an iceberg. The conscious level

Freud (1895) regarded anxiety as a result of repressed or non-discharged libido. According to this psychodynamic theory, repression leads to anxiety (Zerbe, 1990). Hence why, people with anxiety disorders tend to have difficulty managing their complex emotions, often responding with physical and mental symptoms or avoidant behavioral patterns (Abbass et al., 2014). Current trends in psychodynamic therapy have allowed for more focused, time-limited sessions that may prove beneficial for clients, like Steven, who experience anxiety. For this reason, short-term psychodynamic psychotherapies (STPP) have been recognized and thought to work by allowing an individual to become aware of his/her thoughts, emotions and problems with communication and/or

Explain how thought-focused treatment systems are inherently different from psychoanalytical/psychodynamic approaches in treating psychological dysfunctions.

There can be many criticisms for humanistic therapy. This approach can be thought of as too positive at times, in regards to human behavior. With a humanistic approach individuals are assumed to be naturally good and will decide to follow the most positive way of doing things, by either making themselves and the world around them a better place (Mcleod, 2015). Choice and free will at times can be limited to some people, which then can make the application of this approach difficult.

In any film, there is always a deep mental process through the behavior of its characters. Why they do the things they do and how to give a detailed explanation on their behavior. The Imitation Game shows many examples of psychology perspectives to analyze and break down.

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

Freud’s theories in many ways were revolutionary; far ahead of their time and despite the criticism that followed; their popularity remains undiminished as Sigmund Freud remains one of the most researched and written about psychologists in modern history. However his most significant work was the Psychodynamic Theory. The Psychodynamic Theory represents all of Freud’s work regarding the human psyche, it explains personality in terms of conscious and unconscious forces, building upon his previous collaboration with Josef Breuer in 1892 on the theory that the mind is a complex energy system (Sigmund Freud: The Unconscious Mind

Classical psychoanalysis is used to describe the theory developed by Sigmund Freud- a man best known as the father of psychotherapy (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014). The theory of psychoanalysis is one that suggests that people/patients can improve their mental health by allowing any unconscious material to surface (Mcleod,2015). This means that- individuals can be cured by retelling all the material they keep to themselves. This material comes in a form thoughts, and possible motivation. Knowing this information will give an individual insight about their thought processes as well as how it affects their behaviour (Mcleod,2015).