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Psychodynamic and humanist approach - Coggle Diagram
Psychodynamic and humanist approach
Psychodynamic
Assumptions
All behaviour can be explained in terms of the inner conflict of the mind
Our unconscious mind determines most of our behaviour
Id
Biological part of our personality.
Motivated by the pleasure principle and demands instant gratification of its needs.
Ego
Devopls from 1-3 years.
Motivated by the reality principle.
Meditates the conflict between the id and the superego, uses defence mechanisms to achieve this.
Supergo
Develops from 3-5 years.
Motivated by the morality principle.
It punishes the ego with guilt for wrong doing.
Defence mechanisms
Repression- used to keep unwanted memoirs out of the conscious mind where they cannot be accessed.
Displacement- Transferring undesirable impulses from one person to another/object.
Denial- Refusing to acknowledge some aspect of reality.
Psychsexual stages
Latent
5-puberty
sexual drives are repressed
no fixation
Phallic stage
3-6 years
Oedipus complex- young Bioy begins to desire his mother so sees his father as a rival. He creates the repressed fear that his father will castrate him. He realises he can't have his mother, so identifies with his father
Anal
Anus
1-3 years
Anally expulsive (not-strict)- creative, chaotic
Anally retentive- orderly, punctial
Oral
0-1 year
Mouth
Oral receptive (over indulged) - trusting, gullible and dependant.
Oral aggressive (under induldged)- sarcastic, pessimistic