DESCRIBE AND DISCUSS THE PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH IN PSYCHOLOGY REFER TO ONE OTHER APPROACH?
The psychodynamic approach is mainly based on Freud’s ideas. Freud implied there was three main assumptions they include e.g. - how the unconscious mind drives our ideas, Freud believes the unconscious mind is repressed information is stored. However a limitation of this is that Popper questions whether the unconscious mind even exists as you can’t see it or touch it he also questions this due to the lack of scientific research to back up Freud’s assumption. On the other hand strength of this is that you can’t say it doesn’t exist as you can’t test it therefore people still go on about it today.
Another assumption by Freud is that childhood experiences should be studied to help understand adult thinking and the way in which adult personalities are shaped. Freud developed an idea that anxiety was a result of childhood trauma and experiences and therefore influenced behaviour he believed that we repress traumatic experiences and they are hidden from the conscious mind and stored in the unconscious stage. To assess this Freud put forward psychoanalysis as he believed this technique can access the unconscious mind. Psychoanalysis techniques included ink blots, hypnosis, free association and dream analysis for example if you received these therapeutic techniques and were molested as a child then you would be able to deal with the issues and they wouldn’t affect you as much as they did previously. However behaviourist would disagree that childhood experience shape our behaviour but that our behaviour is shaped by the environment. Therefore if behaviour has a positive consequence such as reward it is likely that this behaviour will continue. On the other hand if behaviour was negatively rewarded or punished it is unlikely that the behaviour is unlikely to be repeated. This suggested that a person can be conditioned to learn through operant or classical conditioning.
Freud believed we have instincts and drives motivating our behaviour these are known as ‘eros’ the life
Another assumption by Freud is that childhood experiences should be studied to help understand adult thinking and the way in which adult personalities are shaped. Freud developed an idea that anxiety was a result of childhood trauma and experiences and therefore influenced behaviour he believed that we repress traumatic experiences and they are hidden from the conscious mind and stored in the unconscious stage. To assess this Freud put forward psychoanalysis as he believed this technique can access the unconscious mind. Psychoanalysis techniques included ink blots, hypnosis, free association and dream analysis for example if you received these therapeutic techniques and were molested as a child then you would be able to deal with the issues and they wouldn’t affect you as much as they did previously. However behaviourist would disagree that childhood experience shape our behaviour but that our behaviour is shaped by the environment. Therefore if behaviour has a positive consequence such as reward it is likely that this behaviour will continue. On the other hand if behaviour was negatively rewarded or punished it is unlikely that the behaviour is unlikely to be repeated. This suggested that a person can be conditioned to learn through operant or classical conditioning.
Freud believed we have instincts and drives motivating our behaviour these are known as ‘eros’ the life