Psychodynamics

Narcissistic personality disorder is a general excess admiration; this disorder enables someone from empathizing with others. This disorder is generally one of the most difficult personalities to treat due to random personality patterns. Symptoms vary from grandiose sense of self-importance and preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success. This may be difficult to lead NPD patients to seek help due to their lack of acknowledgement of their certain weaknesses. This can be one of the large…

have continuity in time and that may or may not be easily understood in terms of the social and biological pressures of the immediate situation alone” (1972, p. 9). There are also four main approaches to personality and they are called: The psychodynamic approach: Various conflicts throughout childhood development shape overall personality. The Phenomenological Approach: phenomenological approaches are based in a paradigm of personal knowledge and subjectivity, and emphasize the importance…

Psychology Perspectives There are five perspectives in psychology which are studied and used to understand human behaviour (Burton et al., 2010). The key focus for the psychodynamic perspective developed by Sigmund Freud is that what people do, how they act and feel is a direct association with their unconscious mind. Most of the time people do not realise that the things they are doing or saying oppose what they may truly…

The behaviourist approach assumes that behaviour is a byproduct of environmental stimuli, such as family or the media, and supports that human reactions can be predicted through classical and operant conditioning (class notes, 2016). Classical conditioning is utilised in experiments that involve producing a new behaviour by linking together two stimuli, whereas operant conditioning is the process in which a new behaviour is learned through the consequences of people’s actions (McLeod, 2016).…

There are seven different approaches to psychology: biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary, and sociocultural. The two that will be further explained in this paper is the behavioral and the humanistic perspectives. The behavioral approach focuses on how the environment affects a human's and an animals observable behavior. On the other hand, the humanistic approach has the power of one’s destiny in the people’s hands rather than the environment. To begin…

used science mainly as a model for practice. Impressed by the science, such as medicine, engineering and biology, the leaders of COSs and well-educated people, started to introduce scientific method to social work practice. The development of the psychodynamic theory was adopted by social…

Secondly, within DBT and MBT, interventions appear differently, despite having the same goals. Both therapies require a connection between one’s mind and what one embodies in their experience. MBT is psychoanalytical but differs from Psychoanalytical psychodynamic Psychotherapy (PPP). The objective is not transference but does require insight into the mental exemplifications and narratives of the past and present. DBT interventions are very distinctly designed from a cognitive behavioral…

will discuss Horney’s Social and Cultural Psychoanalytic Theory. Karen was also one of the first feminist psychologists and greatly affected the beliefs of female psychology. Without Karen Horney’s studies and theories on female psychology and psychodynamic thought the knowledge that is included in this paper would not be as accurate as it is. Methods One major theory Karen is largely known for is the Psychoanalytic Social Theory. This states that the social and cultural conditions,…

The punishment should be swift, certain, and proportionately severe regarding the crime that has been committed. The punishment or the threat of punishment can act as a deterrent; which are two different deterrence. There is general deterrence which is where one is supposed to learn from the punishment received by others. The second deterrence is the specific deterrence where someone so supposed to learn from punishment received by a certain individual just so the act of delinquency is not…

many different approaches that offer explanations into the human mind and behaviour looking specifically at psychological processes, thoughts, feelings and motivations behind these behaviours. These main approaches are biological, behavioural, psychodynamic and cognitive. In addition to these explanations there is an argument within psychology that debates if physiological aspects or environmental aspects determine our behaviour, known as the nature versus nurture debate (Haralambos, et al.,…