Psychological disorder ….. Schizophrenia
Main symptoms The main symptoms of this psychological disorder are hallucination, delusions, Disorganized speech.
Explanation 1.
Psychodynamic approach This views Schizophrenia, as the result of the breakdown of the ego because it Is the ego’s that needs to have a balance between the id’s impulse and the moral limitations of the superego. According to the founder of this approach Sigmund Freud believed that mental disorder can arise when an individual has unresolved conflict and trauma from childhood also conflict that could have occurred between the id, ego and superego. This is then repressed into the unconscious mind which causes regressions from the psychosexual stage development. ( Eysench and Flanagen,2006)
The psychodynamic approach also explains that most Schizophrenia is the experience that people may have had in childhood, this …show more content…
According to Gershon (1990) found out that depression runs in the family which means that a person will get the disorder. “the rate of depression was two and more times higher in first degree relatives compared to the general population.” Another research showed that the biological parent of an adopted children had a higher chance of developing depression than the adopted parent to have suffered with depression. The weakness of this explanation is that the genes alone do not determine which person will develop depression because there are other factors which could cause the depression. In contrast the twin studies do provide a strong evidence for the role of the genetic factors. Biological explanations are reductionist as they only focus on factors such as hormones and psychological factors are ignored, furthermore its deterministic because it ignores the individual’s ability to control their own
Main symptoms The main symptoms of this psychological disorder are hallucination, delusions, Disorganized speech.
Explanation 1.
Psychodynamic approach This views Schizophrenia, as the result of the breakdown of the ego because it Is the ego’s that needs to have a balance between the id’s impulse and the moral limitations of the superego. According to the founder of this approach Sigmund Freud believed that mental disorder can arise when an individual has unresolved conflict and trauma from childhood also conflict that could have occurred between the id, ego and superego. This is then repressed into the unconscious mind which causes regressions from the psychosexual stage development. ( Eysench and Flanagen,2006)
The psychodynamic approach also explains that most Schizophrenia is the experience that people may have had in childhood, this …show more content…
According to Gershon (1990) found out that depression runs in the family which means that a person will get the disorder. “the rate of depression was two and more times higher in first degree relatives compared to the general population.” Another research showed that the biological parent of an adopted children had a higher chance of developing depression than the adopted parent to have suffered with depression. The weakness of this explanation is that the genes alone do not determine which person will develop depression because there are other factors which could cause the depression. In contrast the twin studies do provide a strong evidence for the role of the genetic factors. Biological explanations are reductionist as they only focus on factors such as hormones and psychological factors are ignored, furthermore its deterministic because it ignores the individual’s ability to control their own