This essay will focus on the following two treatment models: psychodynamic therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy.
The assumptions of the psychodynamic model are, that a person’s behaviour has everything to do with the psychological forces of which the person is not consciously aware. (Comer, 201?, p.39) Sigmund Freud was the first neurologist to formulate the psychodynamic model and according him, a person’s early developmental experiences may result in an unusual high level of stress. Freud (1933,1917, as cited in Comer 201?, p.100) explains himself by giving an example of a child who is constantly made to believe that his id impulses are wrong, would be overwhelmed with anxiety when he has these impulses. Not only that, but a child’s
The assumptions of the psychodynamic model are, that a person’s behaviour has everything to do with the psychological forces of which the person is not consciously aware. (Comer, 201?, p.39) Sigmund Freud was the first neurologist to formulate the psychodynamic model and according him, a person’s early developmental experiences may result in an unusual high level of stress. Freud (1933,1917, as cited in Comer 201?, p.100) explains himself by giving an example of a child who is constantly made to believe that his id impulses are wrong, would be overwhelmed with anxiety when he has these impulses. Not only that, but a child’s