psychotherapy utilized by therapist Paul to examine and treat his patients. In the case of Sophie‚ a sixteen year old gymnast who attempted suicide multiple times‚ Paul adopts a psychodynamic orientation in order to uncover the reasons behind her unstable emotions. Derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory‚ the primary focus of psychodynamic therapy is to increase the client’s self-awareness by revealing the unconscious content of the mind that may be causing emotional distress. The treatment process is unique
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Analyse and evaluate the Psychodynamic‚ Behaviourist and Cognitive approaches to psychology‚ include in your answer the difference between classical and operant conditioning and compare the theories of conditioning to other approaches. Freud (1856-1939) pioneered the Psychodynamic approach creating theories such as The Three States of Mind; where any decision we make is influenced by unconscious mental processes; that the conscious‚ preconscious‚ and unconscious areas of our mind decide the outcome
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The humanistic movement was established as a way to expand and improve upon the two other schools of thought; behaviourism and psychoanalysis‚ which had‚ up until the first half of the 20th century dominated psychology. An American theorist called Abraham Maslow began to research creativity in humans through art and science. He first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation”. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is most often displayed as a pyramid. The
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Compare and contrast the various personality theories: Psychodynamic perspective‚ Behavioral and Social Cognitive perspective‚ Humanistic perspective‚ and Trait perspective) and discuss which perspective you think is most applicable. Support your argument (based on what you learned‚ examples‚ etc). Psychodynamic Perspectives- view personality as being primarily unconscious and as developing in stages. Psychodynamic theorists believe that behavior is merely a surface characteristic and that to
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Dominick Tammara Unipolar Depression’s Etiology by Sociocultural‚ Psychodynamic and Behavioral Theories Unipolar depression is a psychological disorder which has seen a surge in the last 50 years. It has been discussed in numerous works of art‚ and has even become a public health issue because of its prevalence. Evidently‚ this psychological condition is complicated‚ and diminishes performance in many areas. Due to the fact that it has been reaching epidemic proportions‚ it has become a mayor
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situation has caused her to be very isolated from others in her community which has negatively impacted her social life. She feels embarrassed and humiliated to have conversations with people because of the video. According to Shedler (2011)‚ the psychodynamic approach helps patient free themselves from the past experience and live more fully in the present. This activity helps J.T. forget video and encourages her to work on her confidence to have a good social interaction with people to meet her social-emotional
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Describe the contributions to society of the Cognitive and Psychodynamic Approaches‚ and compare the two approaches in terms of their scientific status (18) The Cognitive Approach provides two contributions to society; Reliability of Eyewitness Testimonies and Cognitive Interviews. The cognitive interview technique has been developed from a number of models of memory and forgetting from the cognitive approach‚ which is used to interview eyewitnesses of crimes. The major two contributors are cue-dependency
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I am going to analyze Princes Diana from psychodynamic perspective. Freud suggested the personality was formed from the interplay of three forces: the id‚ the ego‚ and the superego. He believed that neurosis‚ a kind of mental disorder involving emotional problems in everyday living‚ decreased from person’s inability to exchange the drives of the id with the demands of the superego. Princes Diana’s life was very complicated‚ highly conflicted and dysfunctional. Diana’s ID: From childhood she suffered
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Included Concepts Psychodynamic Model From the psychodynamic model‚ I have chosen to include Malan’s concept of the Triangle of Conflict. I chose to include this model because it provides a basic framework for understanding our defenses and the relationship between our feelings. The Triangle of Conflict model is based on three components: feeling‚ anxiety‚ and defense. In this model feelings trigger anxiety‚ anxiety triggers defenses‚ and defenses repress feelings. All three concepts happen
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Abagail Fisher‚ a white female‚ applied for admission into the University of Texas. She was denied entrance because she did not qualify for Texas’ Top 10 Percent Plan. This plan guarantees entrance to the top ten percent of every graduating high school class in Texas. Miss Fisher sued the University of Texas because she claimed that the use of race in admissions to the college violated the Equal Protection Clause from the 14th Amendment. The case made it all the way up to the Supreme Court which
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