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Psychodynamic approach - Coggle Diagram
Psychodynamic approach
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Defence mechanisms
Excessive use of defence mechanisms will, over time, result in the ego becoming increasingly detached from reality and can cause psychological disorder.
Repression - preventing a thought from emerging into the awareness - "what we know won't hurt us" - pushed into the unconscious mind
Regression - when someone regresses to an earlier time in their life, e.g. acting and talking like a 10-year-old. Regression is thought to help someone go back to a time before a traumatic experience has taken place.
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Evaluation:
Case study: Little Hans was a 5 year old boy who developed a horse phobia after seeing one collapse on the street. Freud suggests that this was a form of displacement in which his repressed fear of his father was displaced onto horses. Thus, horses were a symbolic representation of Hans' real unconscious fear: the fear of castration experienced during the Oedipus complex.
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Practical applications: Psychoanalysis addressed neuroses through talking, whereas previous treatments were barbaric