Psychodynamic Perspective

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Key Perspectives in psychology This essay will outline the psychodynamic perspective in psychology.it will be covering the key assumptions of the psychodynamic perspective and explains human behaviour. At the same time it will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the methods used, and judgement will be made relating to the study. The psychodynamic perspective is the mental study of human behavioural and it is trying to understand how individuals experiences and see the world .The preconscious is like a mental waiting room in which thoughts remain until they succeed in attracting the eye of the conscious. For example, you may be feeling thirsty at this moment and decide to get a drink. The preconscious contains thoughts and feelings that…show more content…
Freud proposed that the adult personality has three parts the ID, EGO and SUPEREGO. The id is the combination of pleasure seeking desires and we are born with it. The ego develops later and it controls the desires of the id. The superego is the moralistic part of personality which develops as a child interacts with significant others such as its parents. The superego can be seen as the conscience. It is the role of the ego to maintain a balance between the id and the…show more content…
Behaviourism is different from the most other perspectives because the way they view people is in controlled way by their environment and specially that we are the result of what we have learned from our background. One of the case studies of Freud’s was the little Hans (the 3 year old boy). The purpose of it was that to fight with the phobia of horse that the little boy had. The little boy was interested in his widdler (penis) when he was 3 years old his mother told him that never to touch it again or else she will cut it off. The scenario tells us that the boy wanted to get rid of his father. However, the father is an adult and stronger than the little boy and so that the child’s fear develops and sees his father as a rival. It has criticised in the way it under estimates the barrier of human behaviour. The most studies did use animal as in example which they found tough to generalise to human and it cannot explain. For example the speed in which we collect language without
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