Peryn Fenlon 1. The purpose of this essay is to identify some of the key concepts and provide an understanding of psychodynamic theory and its application. This will be done in relation to a case study and role play carried out on Frances Ashe‚ a middle aged woman who has been in therapy for five years. The key concepts of psychodynamic theory which will be explored further include stages of development‚ ego defences and past and present links. Psychodynamic refers to the inner drives and
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recent decades‚ the theory and research in family resilience is not incorporated in the literature on child resistance at individual level (Masten & Monn‚ 2015). This is surprising‚ as the individual and family resilience has many common roots‚ including the general systems theory (von Bertalanffy‚ as referred to Masten & Cichetti‚ 2016). This can occur‚ because until now the family resilience more focused on family therapy and practice as directly related to family systems theory (Nichols‚ 2013). In
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Harry Harlow conducted the concept for the adaption theory by using evidence of how infant monkeys reacting to two mothers. The infant monkeys were to experience the science of love‚ where there were two types of “surrogate” mothers created by Harlow. He first separated the baby monkeys from their mothers in the first couple months of birth and designed two new mothers for the monkeys. One other was made from bare wire but it was equipped with dispense milk and the other mother was covered in soft
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current relationships and interpersonal experiences‚ which is precisely the areas Mr. McKenzie is having issues. Objects Relations Theory Another theory that may benefit Mr. McKenzie‚ is object relations theory. Melanie Klein‚ the founder of the objects relation theory‚ believed that infants start life with an inherited choice to reduce the anxiety that they undergo as a result of the clash between the life instinct‚ and the death instinct. She assumed that young infants have an active‚ unconscious
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Theoretical Framework Bowen’s Family Systems Theory Bowen’s family systems theory is a theory specifically in human behaviour saying that the members of the family are somewhat naturally connected to each other emotionally. It says that the family is a unit relating to a member’s emotions and thinking of things to define interactions consisting of many different parts. It says that if a member feels that they are getting disjointed from the family‚ the members will sense that they are feeling that
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Psychodynamic Theory: According to this theory‚ what is in the unconscious plays a prominent role in mental health. The basis for developing a personality according to Freud are to have the id‚ ego‚ and the superego. The characteristic that the individual has to show for falling into the antisocial personality disorder according to the psychodynamic theory is that the individual has a strong id‚ but a much weakened superego. This can result in having no conscious behavior. According to this theory‚ some
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Theories of attachment 1) “cupboard love” theories – psychodynamic/behaviourists 2) The ethological approach 3) Bowlbys evolutionary theory 4) Social learning theory Studying attachments and their loss can help us understand how early relationship experiences can affect later development What is attachment? An intense emotional relationship that is specific to two people that endure over time. Prolonged separation brings stress and sorrow 1‚ “cupboard love” theory – psychodynamic
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3. Describe Nussbaum’s account of the development of children in relationship to primitive shame. How can shame be mishandled/how do children experience underdevelopment in relation to shame? Nussbaum explains firstly how shame is an emotion experienced as a sense of failure in reaching an ideal state. Those who are shameful feel inadequate as a whole person‚ lacking‚ unable to reach a type of wholeness or perfection. She then goes on to explain how shame arises early on in childhood. Infants
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psychologist‚ and is one of the many physiologists responsible for developing theories still followed today by current practising psychologists‚ and is best known for her research in Play Therapy andObject Relations. She carefully thought and planned therapeutic techniques for children which impacted child psychology and psychoanalysis. She was a leader in introducing new methods for theorizing object relations theory. Melanie Klein was born into Jewish heritage in Vienna and first seeked psychoanalysis
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years ago‚ psychologists and scientists began to take a closer look at the family birth order placement and how it affects one’s personality‚ cognitions‚ emotions‚ motivations‚ and behavior in various situations (Waite‚ 1993). In later years‚ the theory was enhanced to add the concept of psychological placement in the family rather than the actual placement in the family. Alfred Adler was one of the first theorists to propose that birth order impacts temperament. He argued that birth order could
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