PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Relaxation Technique, Medical Model
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Psychodynamic: a term used to describe the freudian notion that the mind is in a state of conflict among instincts, reason and conscience. Freud said that all human behaviour is motivated by instinctual drives, which, when activated, supply psychic energy . Believed that instinctual drives are triggered by events in a persons life. Unconscious: the inaccessible part of the mind. Used metaphor of an iceberg to describe mind. Operations of the id are completely unconscious. Id contains the libido which is the primary source of instinctual motivation for all psychic forces. Pleasure principle: the rule that the id obeys: obtain immediate gratification, whatever form it may take. Id is source of uncivilized and ultimately harmful behaviour sometimes. The ego is the thinking, planning, and protective self; it controls and integrates behaviour. Ego is driven by the reality principle, the tendency to satisfy the id s demands realistically, which almost always involves compromising the demands of the id and superego.