Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Psychodynamic Approach - Coggle Diagram
Psychodynamic Approach
Role of the Unconscious
Conscious
Part we are aware off
Pre Conscious
Freudian slip
Unconscious
Storehouse of biological drives and onsticts
Threatening and disturbing memories that have been repressed
Structure of Personality
Tripartite
ID
Pleasure principle
Ego :
Reality Principle
Defence mechanism
Superego
Morality principle
Psychosexual stages
Oral
Anul
Phallic
Latency
Genital
If a conflict is not resolved it leads to fixation
Carry a conflict associated with that stage to adult hood
Explanatory Power
Dominant force in psycholog
Used to explain alot of phenomenons
Case Study Method
Theory was based on individual case studies
Little Hans
Can't make universal claims from studies that were based on small number of individuals
Lacks scientific rigour
Untestable Concepts
Philosopher Karl Popper
Doesn't meet scientific criteria of falsification
Many concepts are imposs8ble to test
Practical Application
New form of therapy
Psychoanalysis
Designed to access the unconscious
Claimed to be successful
Critiqued for being inappropriate to serious mental disorders
Psychic Determinism
Everything I'd driven by unconscious forces
No such thing as free will