Psychodynamics

Gordon Allport disapproved of how most theories of psychology fixated on the past instead of looking at the present or future for insight into the development of personality. Allport also found the concepts of psychoanalysis as overly limiting to the study of personality as it fixated mostly on the unconscious and not nearly enough on conscious motivation (Cloninger, 2013). Instead, he took an alternate approach to studying personality, thus creating personological and humanistic psychology,…

Correlations have been observed between abusive behavior and both mental and physical disorders (Kendall-Tackett, 2000, as cited by Hirschy & Wilkinson, 2010). Psychodynamic theory explains abusive behavior to be internalized traumatic childhood experiences filtered through the id and superego, manifesting as personality aberrations which cause negative responses to family members. Similarly, attachment theory suggests…

Carl Rogers’ proposed that humans have an innate ability for mental growth and that also depends on external factors (Rogers 2007). Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory strictly focuses on a person’s unconscious thoughts that are repressed from childhood and negatively affected a person later in their adult life (Safran et al. 2014). In addition to the unconscious, Freud also believed that the human mind was made of two other parts, the pre-conscious that holds all of our memories and stored…

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MODEL The psycholinguistic model aims to explain a child’s speech acquisition at a cognitive or psychological level. It attempts to identify psychological processes or mental mechanisms involved in “perception, storage, planning and production of speech as it is produced in real time in real utterances” (McCormack, 1997, p.4). Psycholinguists’ focus is that which takes place between the first and final point of the speech process. The first being the speech signal that is…

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder that is most common in children. It is a neuropsychiatric syndrome that affects children worldwide. The primary characteristic of (ADHD) is a persistent pattern of inattentive, or hyperactive/impulsive behaviour that interferes with functioning and child’s development. There are different symptoms of ADHD, for instance, difficulty in sustaining attention in tasks and activities, unable to give attention to details, and…

A counseling approach that incorporates a variety of counseling theories in order to create a treatment program to meet the specific needs of the patient or client is called an eclectic approach. Eclectic counselors do not adhere to just one specific approach; instead counselors apply a range of techniques hoping to establish a foundation for their client or patient personally. It is important to have the appropriate treatment with the right problem and understand that not just one technique…

The Psychodynamic Theory of Walter White Introduction Walter White also known as “Heisenberg” is the main character from the television show, “Breaking Bad”. Walt was a great chemist who contributed research to a Nobel-Prize winning experiment and co-founded the company Gray Matter Technologies with his friend Elliott Schwartz and girlfriend Gretchen. Walt later left Gray Matter which eventually went on to become a multi-billion-dollar company which greatly profited from Walt’s previous work,…

The Psychodynamic theory created by Sigmund Freud describes development in terms of psychosexual stages. (Gordon, A.M., & Browne, K.W, 2011:108) Sensual satisfaction that is associated with each specific body part is linked to specific challenges of that age. There are four stages named : Oral, Anal, Phallic and Genital. Jeremiah falls within the Phallic stage as this is the three to six year old stage. This is when children become aware of their sex role and develop a conscience. There was,…

In scenario one a psychodynamic psychologist may ask, do you act out because you’re upset or frustrated? Does your mother and teacher make you angry? Do you do what you want whenever you want? An area that would interest this psychologist in observing is his personality, specifically when he is acting upon his impulses. This psychologist may suggest that his personality is forming this way because the ID is fighting to become conscious, pushing his superego into his unconscious making this…

conflicts. The personality of an individual is shaped by his childhood experiences and how these experiences are consciously and unconsciously processed by the brain with in the developmental stages. Freud’s theory of personality is also called psychodynamic theory. STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY:…