For example, one psychologist may use descriptive psychopathology to which will strive to provide answers for symptoms or mental illness. Either way, psychopathology is formally used to study mental illness or the distresses which may be affecting an individual. The issues of the abnormal psychology will assist in the study by the way we would use it in the attempt to capture interest, trigger concerns, and demands our attention. It also brings us to form and ask certain questions pertaining to any study. Psychopathology is not the same as psychopathy, which has to do with antisocial
Critical thinking when reading, is like searching for a hidden treasure the writer wants you to find, by looking a more in dept to their writing. It is also thoughtful engagement with the authors work, and asking yourself if you agree with the topic in which they writing about. “It means thinking not about just what someone says but about the unspoken assumptions that lay behind what she says, the unnamed implications of what she says, and the way
Emma Culloty BIRMI2A 11 Evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of psychosexual development can help us to understand a Client’s presenting issue. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development is a theory that has caused a large amount of debate and can be seen as quite a contentious issue, particularly when using this theory to try and understand a client’s presenting issue. This essay will look into Freud’s psychosexual theory and will describe how it relates to adult neurotic behaviour. The essay will then look at the critiques of Carl Jung and Erich Fromm and will look at the ideas surrounding Jung’s collective consciousness and Fromm’s view based on a sociological perspective, where the person is able to decide for them and how problems can arise for a client when this does not happen. This essay will also look at the role of women and homosexuality and discuss whether Freud’s views where based on a cultural prejudice when he devised the psychosexual theory.
Evaluate the extent to which Freud's theory of psychosexual development can help us to understand a client's presenting issue? In psychodynamic counselling the clients need or desire to relate their past experience's to their current presenting issues is very beneficial, and is seen as a step towards changing their current situation, by linking the past with the present situation helps the client to relieve themselves of any baggage that they may have been carrying around with them. Psychodynamic counselling aims to map out the client's past to present creating a mutual understanding between the client and therapist. During this process it is essential that the therapist uses the correct treatment, often diagnosed during sessions leading on from the initial consultation in the 'mid game' of therapy, second session onwards until a desired goal is achieved. It is vital that the therapist listens carefully and uses their intuition in order to pick up on what is mentioned and indeed also what is not mentioned noticing in particular moods and body changes in the client as they recall their past experiences sometimes a client will avoid talking about the very reason for their presenting problem for example they may talk openly about their mother but not mention their father at all and he may or may not be the problem.
The use of psychodynamic therapy focuses on the unconscious mind, its struggles with reconciling one’s biological existence with their social existence and the affects these struggles have on a person’s psychological well being helping them to be more conscious of these struggles and how to react to them. Humanistic-existential therapy focuses on what seems to be the opposite of psychodynamic therapy in that it deals more with the conscious mind of an individual. This serves to give one the ability to express their feelings in dealing with what is currently happening in their lives. Behavior therapy is a more physical therapy in helping those with phobias or addictions often forcing them to face their fears with action. Cognitive therapy has focus more in shaping one’s beliefs and/or attitudes.
Running head: Personality Theories Personality Theories PSY/211 Personality Theories The existence of personality theories correspond to how scholars analyze and assess the development of human identity and behavior. Each viewpoint provides a specific understanding of what cultivates personality and the corresponding factors that influence such behavior. One way to analyze personality is through the lens of psychoanalytic theory. The main argument of this theory is that problems or issues pertaining to psychology can be rooted to one’s unconscious (McLeod, 2007). Specifically, the problems are influenced by latent issues surfacing in the conscious mind.
Deep Semantics Of Imagery In The Color Purple Apart from its endless potential to engender thought which it shares with philosophy, literature is ‘a category of labour’ (Ricoeur, 1981: 136). It is a structured totality irreducible to the sentences that constitute it so that the first problem it presents as a work is that of understanding (Thompson 1984: 178). Reading a literary text is, therefore, quite different from reading other texts; here, the exercise involves a back and forth movement. The critic observes the clues offered by the text and the validity of his construction is through the logic of probability (Aristotle). In Ricoeur’s deep semantics, metaphor is indispensable for it opens a wide range of possible relations a word can enter into.
This was suggested by Freud. This approach suggests that phobias are learnt through repression and displacement. Repression is a defence mechanism where thoughts that provoke distress are pushed into the unconscious mind so that they don’t have to be dealt with in the conscious mind. Displacement is another defence mechanism when emotions are diverted onto something else away from the thing that caused the anxiety. The theory is mainly based on Freud’s Little Hans study.
The Psychodynamic Perspective The school of psychodynamics focuses on the interplay of the mental forces. It is said that humans have can have unconscious motives that underlie their true intentions. It is also said that the foundations of what was discovered rests on the evidence that people could be aware of their subconscious motivations while processing the things that affect their conscious thoughts that are related to their feelings, behaviors and intentions. Scientific studies show that psychodynamic perspective can reveal as to why a person’s actions are brought on by thoughts and feelings that would cause a reaction or a response in different situations. This school of study ultimately depends on the methods of the case studies that are performed to provide the necessary information that will clearly show them the evidence based on motivations.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Theory? Cognitive Behavioral Theory is a psychotherapeutic approach, a talking therapy that aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure. The title is used in diverse ways to designate behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and to refer to therapy based upon a combination of basic