Key perspectives: The Psychodynamic approach.
By Fred Brent
Psychology has been defined as the study of the human mind, behaviour and nature. Though it has only relatively recently been recognised as a science, when Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychology laboratory in 1879, its essence can be dated as far back as 387BC, when Plato first theorised that the brain is a mechanism of mental process (Heffner, accessed 2015). The psychodynamic approach (the treatment is known as psychoanalysis), which is just one of many forms of psychology, is the study that different psychological feelings and thoughts can affect how an individual behaves and the emotional and mental state of a person’s mind.
The psychodynamic approach was founded by …show more content…
Freud, in 1905, suggested that psychological development in children takes place in a timeline of fixed stages. (Mcleod, 2008) These fixed stages of children’s development are called psychosexual stages as each represents a sexual fixation on different areas of the body. As explained by Keegan (2002 P.17) Freud proposed that there were five stages in psychosexual development, The oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latent stage and the genital stage, each leading to a complex developed later in life. (Fig. …show more content…
Pankejeff was a Russian man born into a wealthy family in 1886, Overcome with grief by the suicides of both his elder sister and father, he fell into a deep depression and travelled to Vienna to receive help from Freud. A considerable amount of the psychoanalysis that took place was focused on a dream Pankejeff had as a young child. Freud recounted the dream in his 1918 book, ‘From the History of an Infantile Neurosis’(Cited by Cherry, 2010); “As I was lying in bed the window opened of its own accord, and I was terrified to see that some white wolves were sitting on the big walnut tree in front of the window. There were six or seven of them. In great terror, evidently of being eaten up by the wolves, I screamed and woke up.” Freud interpreted this dream to be a result of trauma in Pankejeff’s childhood; specifically he had viewed his parents engaged in sexual intercourse and after one year of treatment Freud stated Pankejeff was cured so he returned home to Russia. Despite being labelled as cured, Pankejeff later stated to an Australian journalist that he felt no different after seeing Freud, and continued to seek psychoanalytic help. (Cherry,
By Fred Brent
Psychology has been defined as the study of the human mind, behaviour and nature. Though it has only relatively recently been recognised as a science, when Wilhelm Wundt established the first psychology laboratory in 1879, its essence can be dated as far back as 387BC, when Plato first theorised that the brain is a mechanism of mental process (Heffner, accessed 2015). The psychodynamic approach (the treatment is known as psychoanalysis), which is just one of many forms of psychology, is the study that different psychological feelings and thoughts can affect how an individual behaves and the emotional and mental state of a person’s mind.
The psychodynamic approach was founded by …show more content…
Freud, in 1905, suggested that psychological development in children takes place in a timeline of fixed stages. (Mcleod, 2008) These fixed stages of children’s development are called psychosexual stages as each represents a sexual fixation on different areas of the body. As explained by Keegan (2002 P.17) Freud proposed that there were five stages in psychosexual development, The oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latent stage and the genital stage, each leading to a complex developed later in life. (Fig. …show more content…
Pankejeff was a Russian man born into a wealthy family in 1886, Overcome with grief by the suicides of both his elder sister and father, he fell into a deep depression and travelled to Vienna to receive help from Freud. A considerable amount of the psychoanalysis that took place was focused on a dream Pankejeff had as a young child. Freud recounted the dream in his 1918 book, ‘From the History of an Infantile Neurosis’(Cited by Cherry, 2010); “As I was lying in bed the window opened of its own accord, and I was terrified to see that some white wolves were sitting on the big walnut tree in front of the window. There were six or seven of them. In great terror, evidently of being eaten up by the wolves, I screamed and woke up.” Freud interpreted this dream to be a result of trauma in Pankejeff’s childhood; specifically he had viewed his parents engaged in sexual intercourse and after one year of treatment Freud stated Pankejeff was cured so he returned home to Russia. Despite being labelled as cured, Pankejeff later stated to an Australian journalist that he felt no different after seeing Freud, and continued to seek psychoanalytic help. (Cherry,