Psychoanalytic Approach Vs Biological Approach

are considered to be very important. The patient's own thoughts and feelings are seen as unconscious ideas, which could easily be not true (Davies & Bhugra, 2004).

The biological approach and psychoanalytic approach are both deterministic. They both claim that innate componants are responsible for our behaviour. The biological approach claims Behaviour is caused by specific brain structures or that genetic makeup. For example if you have a gene for for a specific behaviour, you will exhibit that type of behaviour. Valentine(1992, cited in Davey & Sterling, 2008). The psychoanalytic approach deterministic as it claims the unconscious drives determine behaviour. Most aspects of behaviour can be explained at an unconscious level. (Pennington, 2003).

The two perspectives both take nature and nurture into account. The biological perspective claims that genes impact behaviour, and that without the genes the environment cannot have an effect (Cartwright, 2000). The psychosexual stages are innate and are the
However they differ greatly on their key features, and their main focus is different. Psychoanalysis focuses on the activities of the unconscious and opposing forces preventing dangerous things coming into conscious awareness (Frosh, 2012). However, the biological approach is more concerned with the activities of the nervous system (Pinel, 2011). One of the key features of how the psychoanalytic approach differs from the biological approch is that it claims behaviour is that our mind is composed of three parts, and our personality is the result of these three structures. Freud (1923, cited in Frosh, 2012). In contrast the biolgical approach is concerned with genes, and the fact of neurones. The biological approach claims that all behaviour is the due to the workings of the nervous system and brain (Kimble and Colman,