Evaluate the Extent to Which Freud's Theory of Psychosexual Development Can Help Us to Understand a Client's Presenting Issue?

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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 therapist must learn to pick up on these clues and create a map for the client and then devise a treatment plan using a psychodynamic model, as set out in the TIME model by chrysalis described in module 1 . Sigmund Freud devised such a model, relating to one aspect of psychodynamic counselling - psychosexual development. Sigmund Freud devised such a model, relating to one aspect of psychodynamic counselling - psychosexual development. Sigmund Freud, was born in 1956 to a Jewish family in Austria, Freud firmly believed that no aspect of human
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