Psychodynamic Theories of Personality As you have previously learned‚ psychology is comprised of several theoretical orientations and subfields. With respect to the psychodynamic theoretical orientation‚ I would like you to briefly describe how someone from the psychodynamic perspective understands and explains personality development and the structure of the personality. I look forward to your thoughts. Sigmund Freud initially developed the Psychodynamic perspective of personality. It was the
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begins with an exposure to a non-normative or extremely distressing event or chain of events that potentially disrupts the self. McCann‚ & Pearlman‚ (1990) This essay will explore the intra-psychic psychodynamic approach and the socio-ecological theory of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory of development. It will examine how individuals recover from trauma when a loved one becomes chronically ill or deceases. Pierre Janet‚ 1889‚ suggested that intense emotional reactions make events traumatic
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and made generalizations that grew into conceptualizations and eventually into the theories of psychoanalysis. Freud would listen to his patients‚ and then use these thoughts to interpret what was happening in the unconscious part of their mind. This was explained as bringing
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The Psychodynamic Theory Abstract The psychodynamic theory was the study of human personality‚ first popularized by psychologist Sigmund Freud. This essay will discuss the three different structures of personality: the id‚ ego‚ and superego. This essay will also discuss repression‚ projection‚ displacement‚ reaction formation‚ and regression which are the five defense mechanisms. The Psychodynamic Theory The psychodynamic theory is focused on
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Following research of group intervention and psychosocial theory‚ independently and dependently‚ social work theories will now be introduced which would support Rory. Psychodynamic theory was developed following work by Sigmund Freud around psychology and the theory that early life experiences affect an individuals’ development throughout life. Psychodynamic theories “emphasize the importance of people’s feelings and internal conflicts in creating and resolving problems that they face… and have helped
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My essay is on the Psychodynamic theory based on the belief that people’s behaviour and emotions as adults are rooted in their childhood experiences. I will focus on the Psychodynamic concept in relation to the unconscious mind. I will look at the concept of ‘Object relations’ and particularly I will look at what Freud called Transference. I will say how I can relate to these concepts in my own personal relationships with others and give some examples of how these can impact in my client work
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INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY The psychodynamic theories that I have been studying this year have been nothing short of fascinating and as a result‚ I now view life in a very different way. I can see many of these concepts in both my own life and in my client work. I was relinquished by my mother and adopted when only a few days old and although my adoptive parents made me aware of my situation from an early age‚ I did not understand or accept the magnitude of this early life experience
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were aware of. His aim was always to create a psychological theory that applied to everybody. Nowadays Freud is known in psychology as the father of psychoanalysis. Freud’s psychodynamic theory focuses on both development and the unconscious mind which is where mental health problems are supposedly formed. Although this theory doesn’t apply to everyone‚ Freud followed it strongly when concerning his various case studies. In Freud’s theory he stated that there were three levels of consciousness‚ the
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such as high level of achievement‚ however‚ it also leads to different negative outcomes. In accordance with previous studies (Horney‚ 1951; Missildine‚ 1963)‚ the perfectionism is a risk factor in causing and maintaining psychopathology‚ with psychodynamic theory highlighting that perfectionism was the expression of maladaptive personality. These findings also supported by other studies‚ for example‚ studies related to the relationship between perfectionism and psychopathology indicate that perfectionism
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With ideas opposite psychodynamic approaches‚ Beck concluded the key to therapy was in a patients’ cognition‚ which is the way we perceive‚ interpret‚ and attribute meaning. Beck’s preliminary focus was on depression and developed a list of "errors" in thinking that he suggested could cause or maintain depression‚ including "arbitrary inference‚ selective abstraction‚ over-generalization‚ and magnification (of negatives) and minimization (of positives)." He later expanded his focus on anxiety disorders
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