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Approaches to Psychology & ethics.
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PSYCHOLOGY 1: APPROACHES TO PSYCHOLOGY & ETHICS There are three main approaches to psychology: psychoanalytic, behaviourist, and humanistic. The psychoanalytic approach was started and developed mainly in Europe between 1900 and 1939 by Sigmund Freud, a Viennese doctor who specialized in neurology. As a doctor, he became interested in the field of hysteria - the manifestation of physical symptoms without physical causes - and became convinced that unconscious mental causes were responsible, and could be responsible for all mental disorders and even our personality. He created the theory of personality, and based his ideas upon intensive case studies of a considerable range of patients, especially his infamous study on "Little Hans", a young boy who Freud carried out psychoanalysis upon. Bowlby (1946) applied Freud's theories when he used psychoanalysis on a large group of children with various ages on a study of habitual delinquency. The central emphasis is on dynamic,...
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