Psychodynamic, Behavioural, Cognitive & Humanist Theories
In a way, Harvey’s therapist took more of a psychodynamic approach because she has to resolve his conflicted conscious and unconscious feelings. She approaches the therapy by performing …show more content…
She also tries to understand his past experience by investigating the child-parent relationship of her patient. This supports Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theory, that one factor that shapes human behaviour is by child experiences, which also in turn, influences the unconscious mind through life (Jan Haskings-Winner). I feel that Harvey’s therapy session is in support of B.F Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning. His quick temper always gets in the way whenever his therapist tries to dig deeper to find out about his past, and since he has trouble sleeping at night and experience panic attacks during the day, his therapist applies the reward and punishment approach by punishing him if he would not do of what she asks him to do, for example, taking a step closer to talk to his mom, see his brother, or