Wave 1: Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

• Modernist
• Sigmund Freud
• Understanding present by examining our past
• Emphasises early childhood and psychosexual development.

Question 2

Sigmund Freud

Answer 2

• Austrian
• Studied medicine, specialised in Psychiatry
• believed that human nature is determinist

Question 3

Conscious

Answer 3

• Reality is the tip of the iceberg.
• Decisions made in everyday life
• Dont have to think deeply

Question 4

Preconscious

Answer 4

• Memories drawn up with some thinking back to past experiences

Question 5

Unconscious

Answer 5

• Childhood, trauma.
• people unaware of unconscious
• controls us without our conscious control

Question 6

Id

Answer 6

• the ‘child’
• ruled by the pleasure principle.
• our wants and needs.

Question 7

Superego

Answer 7

• morality
• the ‘parent’
• inhibits the Ids impulses based on societal values, rules etc

Question 8

Ego

Answer 8

• the ‘adult’
• ruled by reality principle
• governs and regulates personality

Question 9

Where do problems arise?

Answer 9

• conflict between Id, superego and ego.
• instinctual urges (Id) threaten to surface to consciousness and pose danger to Ego.
• fixation on particular stage of development.
• relationship between child and caregiver.

Question 10

Psychosexual development

Answer 10

5 stages: oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital.

if stages are missed or not completed negative effects translate into adulthood.

root of dysfunctionality and pathology

Question 11

Therapeutic techniques

Answer 11

• free association
• dream analysis
• counter transference
• resistance
• interpretation