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Psychodynamic Theories

Psychodynamic Theories. Key Terms. Psychodynamic theory – an approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscious/unconscious feelings

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Psychodynamic Theories

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  1. Psychodynamic Theories

  2. Key Terms • Psychodynamic theory – an approach to therapy that focuses on resolving a patient’s conflicted conscious/unconscious feelings • Psychoanalytic theory – Sigmund Freud’s theory that all human behaviour is influenced by early childhood and childhood experiences influences the unconscious mind throughout life • Neo-Freudians – psychologists who modified Freud’s psychoanalytic to include social and cultural aspects

  3. Key Terms • Analytical Psychology – A branch of psych founded by Carl Yung based on the idea that balancing a person’s psych would allow the person to reach his or her full potential • Collective unconscious – the shared, inherited pool of memories from our ancestors • Personal unconsciousness – unique to each individual

  4. Key Terms • Defence Mechanism- ego’s way of dealing with anxiety • Repression- the ego doesn’t accept feelings or memories from the consciousness mind • Displacement- shifting your emotion to another person’s object or situation

  5. Sigmund Freud • Famous Psychologist • Discovered three parts of the human conscious and believed they interacted with each other and individual chooses which urge to respond to • Ego - Rational part of mind • Id - The instinctual part of mind • Super Ego - Moral centre of mind

  6. Karen Horney (1885-1952) • Neo-Freudian (psychologist who modified Freud’s theories to include social and cultural aspects) • Felt Freud’s theories didn’t represent women • Made significant contributions to study of neurotic disorder (involves anxiety and fear) • Many contributions – still valid today

  7. Carl Jung (1875-1961) • Student of Freud that disagreed with him • Founded analytical psychology • Believed symbols represent same thing to all human beings • Archetypes – connected to images and emotions • Mother – nurturing and soothing • Father – stern and powerful • Discovered 2 parts to unconscious: • Personal and Collective

  8. Personality • Carl Jung made 4 types of personalities: • Thinking (uses reason) • Feeling (uses emotions) • Sensations (uses the senses) • Intuition (uses perception) • Consciously we choose one type and our unconscious mind chooses the opposite of that • This leads to the field of psychometrics – uses questionnaires and tests to measure personality and ability

  9. Psychology of Interpretation of Dreams • Psychologists used dreams to make diagnoses • Studying dreams can help psychologists understand the unconscious • Freud’s dream theories were criticized and was said to be one of his biggest failures • Jung believed that symbols in dreams was the unconscious/instinctive mind trying to communicate with the conscious mind

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