PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sigmund Freud, Reductionism, Twin
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Paradigms conceptual framework or approach within which the scientist works. Biological: mental disorders are caused by biological processes. Medical model or disease model: heredity can play a role, behaviour genetics genotype and phenotype. Psychoanalytic: developed by sigmund freud, unconscious conflicts in the individual, classical psychoanalytic theory original views of freud. Superego conscience of the person: modifications in psychoanalytic therapy. Ego analysis place greater emphasis on a person"s ability to control the environment and to select the time and the means for satisfying instinctual drives, condenting that the individual is as much ego as id. Brief psychodynamic therapy was freud"s but now it lasts much longer than what he intended it to be. Interpersonal therapy addresses interpersonal difficulties and how to relate with others better. Self actualization: client takes lead, two types of empathy. Primary empathy refers to therapist"s understanding, accepting, and communicatng to the client.
