Psychodynamic Case Study

The Freudian perspective states that everyone is made up of three characteristics under one personality (Meyer, Moore, & Viljoan, 1989a). The id is mostly unconscious, seeking complete and immediate pleasure driven by sexual motivations, leading to a conflict with the superego who control such urges. As such, the ego mediates and resolve the urges through social-acceptable means.
High sexual motivations during the developmental stages can result in personality imbalance due to the ego’s struggles to manage the conflict, mainly neuroses, personality disorder and psychoses (Meyer, Moore, & Viljoan, 1989b). As psychoanalysis delve into the past that affects the client’s present, the psychotherapy can be very extensive and complicated, with little scientific basis.
The psychodynamic therapy lack of scientific basis as there is little difference in the individual’s behaviour as compared to other therapies, namely cognitive-behavioural therapy (Sheder, 2010). Psychodynamic therapies focus on the interpersonal relationship of the individuals that is built upon past experiences, providing possibilities of causations.
The first scenario displayed a client with a projective identification towards a manager, weak ego; regression, denial and rationalising her father’s behaviour. The second scenario involved a client with an anal fixation, facing insomnia regularly due to the repressed memories of wanting a perfect family caused by her id, and an innate desire to be with her parents. The client had a weak ego as she controlled her behaviour but with occasional outburst as she vents her aggression towards her peers in school which is a form of