The Psychodynamic Approach

Max is a 25-year-old African American male who suffers from Opioid Use Disorder, Severe. Max was raised by his mother while his father remained in prison for distribution of Methamphetamine. Max started using at the young age of 13. He has moved around a lot as a child since his mother could not find work in her rural communities. Max has always had a hard time making friends and getting to know people for fear of getting close to people and having to move. Max has started to experience some problems due to his usage and has ended up in residential treatment. Max is unable to full fill his role as a father, son, and husband. He cannot hold a job and has caught his first criminal charge of possession. He is seeking help because the court has

The psychodynamic approach uses personality as its main focus to describe leadership. The psychodynamic approach is to raise awareness for leaders to know and understand their strengths and weakness in their personality traits. This approach allows individuals to identify their Myers-Briggs typologies which will help them understand their leadership qualities and disadvantages. The Myers-Briggs typologies are extraversion versus introversion, sensing versus intuiting, thinking versus feeling, and judging versus perceiving. The Psychodynamic Approach Survey states my four Myers-Briggs typologies are extravert, sensor, thinker and judger and I agree with my results.

Introversion is defined as a person who is exhausted with community encounter and choose to energize themselves by solitary. They are often confused with being shy, but they recommend having their alone time. In my opinion introversion is something that is learned about a person at an early age. It cannot be taught or learn once you get older. The psychodynamic perspectives consist in early childhood experiences and are referred as the unconscious mind that defines an individual personality. Referring back to the video, as an introvert she found herself wanting to read book instead of interacting with the fellow campers. Sigmung Fred believe that thing hidden in the unconscious mind of a child helps develop personality. The humanistic perspective is the belief that

The psychodynamic approach views behaviour in terms of past childhood experiences, and the influence of unconscious processes. There are five psychosexual stages in Freud’s theory, the first being the oral stage during which the infant focuses on satisfying hunger orally. Sigmund Freud believed that during this stage of development the person can become fixated in the oral stage of development. An infant's pleasure and comfort centres on having things in the mouth during this

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Firstly I'm going to evaluate Psychodynamic Psychology as this is one that I have previous knowledge about. First founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) an Austrian Psychologist who linked childhood experience with how it influences us as adults. He described that experiencing something in childhood resulted in similar behaviour as an adult. The Psychodynamic approach believes we have drives which can determine our behaviour and that these drives are shaped in childhood and this is where we develop our personality. The strengths to this approach is that if we get to the core of the problem psychologically and tackle the memory linked to the behaviour, it may change the way we interpret memory into the certain behaviour.

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

Psychology is a branch of philosophy until the late 1870’s when it was developed in Germany and the United States as an independent scientific punishment. In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory and dedicated it to psychological research in Leipzig, Germany. Wilhelm Wundt was also the first person to be referred as a psychologists. Early sponsors to the psychology field are Hermann Ebbinghaus, who is the pioneer in the study of the memory. William James, who is the father of pragmatism. Ivan Pavlolv, who had develop the procedures that is associated with classical conditioning, which is the learning process which an innate responses to a stimulus that comes to be elicited in response to a neutral stimulus. In 1890, Hugo Munsterberg began writing the application of psychology to production, law and other fields. Also in 1890 Lightner Witmer had established the first psychology clinic.

Biological Perspective In a biological perspective, a psychologist would view alcoholism as something problematic. It's high side effects can often affect our moods and certain urges. However, because our brains have various ways of coping; being in an intoxicated stage can be different for everyone, some people may experience sadness, others may experience rage and anger, or pure bliss and happiness. Furthermore, genetics can play a significant role in alcoholism.

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 to psychology is the study of human behaviour from the point of view of motivation and drives. The original beliefs of this approach were created by Sigmund Freud in the 1800s. Although it is now generally seen negatively in the common view, sometimes comically, it has provided the inspiration for a few of the current leading approaches to psychology.

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.

Focus is on the unconscious mind and its influence over conscious behavior (such as nail biting, nervous rituals)

The psychodynamic perspective focuses on trying to get inside the heads of people to see what underlying cause for some of their behaviors might be. This perspective suggests that our behavior is influenced by unconscious motives. One of the approaches of the psychodynamic perspective is that childhood experiences are important in shaping our behavior as adults. A person who goes through a rough experience as a child will be affected by it in their adulthood. This approach splits up the mind into three different levels of conscious awareness: conscious, preconscious and unconscious. The conscious mind contains the information that we are aware of and can be easily accessed. The preconscious mind holds on to information that is easily retrievable

Psychotherapy: Comparing the Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches Up to one in four adults in America suffer from some kind of mental illness, but as many as 80 percent of those suffering will not seek any form of treatment. According to David Susman PhD, a clinical psychologist and mental health advocate, in his blog post “8 Reasons Why People Don’t Get Treatment for Mental Illness” this is likely due to many factors such as social stigmatization of those with mental illness, widespread lack of awareness surrounding what is unhealthy, and misunderstanding or distrust of the functionality of potential treatments. While there are undoubtedly many other factors that contribute to an individual choosing not to seek help, all three of these factors can be