The Psychodynamic ApproachKey terms

‘Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.’

Sigmund Freud

Three, the id, ego and superego

• How many parts make up a personality according to Freud?

The id

• Which part of the personality are we all born with?

Five stages should be passed through

• How many stages of psychosexual development are there?

The oral stage – 0 to 1 year

• Which stage of psychosexual development is associated with the mouth and suckling?

Oedipus

• Which famous character from Greek myth was used to symbolise a relationship that a child develops with his parents in the phallic phase?

Free association

• Which therapy technique involves the patient allowing their thoughts free rein?

The unconscious mind can come to the fore

• What did Freud believe about dreaming and the unconscious mind?

Things that cannot be thought about in daily life are in dreams, but disguised.

• What is dream symbolism?

Three, the id, ego and superego

• How many parts make up a personality according to Freud?

They are difficult to test

• What complaint have scientific psychologists made about Freud’s theories?