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Outline and evaluate The Psychodynamic model as a way of explaining abnormal behaviour
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MOS CRESSIDA Q. OUTLINE AND EVALUATE THE PSYCHODYNAMIC MODEL AS A WAY OF EXPLAINING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR. (18 marks) The Psychodynamic model was developed by Freud in the late 1970s. The model regards the origin of mental disorders as psychological rather than physical. He believed that these disorders were caused internally. The main principle is that mental illness arises from unresolved, unconscious conflicts, originating in childhood, which are now repressed. Freud first made his claim as a way of explaining hysteria, a disorder in which physical symptoms (such as deafness) are experienced, but with no underlying physical cause. He astonished his medical colleagues by proposing that hysteria's origins lay in unresolved and unconscious sexual conflicts originating in childhood. He believed that personality has three components and that all behavior is a product of their interaction (the 'structural model'): The Id is present at birth and is the impulsive, pleasurable seeking part of the personality. The Id operates...
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