Psychology Approaches : Psychodynamic approch (3)

Why is Freuds sample biased?

He studied wealthy viennese (Austrian) patients and one child unrepresentative sample, so his findings can’t be generalised to the wider population. Most people do not share the same culture, class, lifestyle, or experiences as his patients, so his conclusions may not apply to everyone.

Why is the approch deterministic?

IT assumes all behaviour is driven by unconscious forces and childhood experiences meaning individuals have no free will over there actions

Conflicts with modern views of free wills / reducing scientific credibility

How does the psychodynamic approch emphasise childhood?

Argues adult personality and mental health are shaped by early chilhood experiences especially dueing psychosexual stages

Influenced modern development psychology

How has the psychodynamic approach influenced counselling?

It led to psychoanalysis a talking therapy aiming to uncover unconscious conflict through techinques like dream analysis and free association

Shows strong real world application

Why is the psychodynamic approch cultrually biased?

Freuds ideas reflect wester 20th centry values which many not apply to toher cultruers with different norms aound family, sexuality and child reading

Therfore cultrual bias, ethoncentrism, lacks genralsisabilty limiting the universitality

Why is the psychodynamic approch gender biased?

Concepts like penis envy and elextra complex reflect outdated, male centered assumptions and ignore female psychology development

Showing androcentrism, gender bias, and reducing validity for explaing female behaviour

How does the psychodynamic approch explain abnormal behavior?

Links mental diorders to unresolved unconscious conflict, repressed trauma, or fixation at a psychosexual stage

Provedes developmetal explanation for mental illness

What is the role of parents in psychodynamic development?

Parents shape the superego through disciplin an dinfluence fixation through their behaviour during the psychosexual stages

Highlights importance of early family enviroment

How does the psychodynamic approch explain adult relationship?

Unresolved childhood conflicts affects attachment, intimacy adn relationship patterns in adulthood

Connects childhood to later social functioning

Why is psychoanalysis used to access the unconscious ?

It aims to bring repressed material into conscious awarness using techniques like dream analysis and free association

PRovides the therapeutic application fo the approch