PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Anxiety Disorder, Behaviour Therapy, Developmental Psychology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO105
• Professor: Jennifer Passey

Document Summary

Dynamic: force _ force of unscious motives and thoughts and behaviours to the conscious . Example: may have close relationship wit sibling an want to maintain that and con ict arises with unconscious desire to have sexual relations with siblings partner. Childhood may be a time when people experience frothing events and they don"t understand . Failing to resolve those con icts can lead to problems later on. Two people with same symptoms and same diagnosis but the root of the problem may be completely di erent. Maybe anorexia nervosa but psychodynamicmic therapist will wonder why this happened. Cause may be: underlying disgust with who they are. May also suggest: another individual with same symptoms and diagnosis - the cause was fear of sex. Symptoms may be clues about hat the underlying reasons may be. Most of the ties the patients re unaware of the root cause.