PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14-18: Coronary Artery Disease, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder
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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. Believed that instinctual drives are triggered by events in a persons life. Used metaphor of an iceberg to describe mind. 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. The super-ego is subdivided into the conscience and the ego-ideal.
