PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY.pptx

PSYCH

1. PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY BRIX ARABEJO MIROTE, MAED RPM, LPT. INSTRUCTOR 1

2. Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) was the founding father of psychoanalysis , a method for treating mental illness and also a theory which explains human behavior .

3. PSYCHOANALYSIS •Psychoanalysis is both an approach to therapy and a theory of personality •Emphasizes unconscious motivation – the main cause of behavior lie in unconscious mind

4. VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE 1.DETERMINISTIC • Life is about gaining pleasure and avoiding pain 2. HUMAN AS ENERGY SYSTEM • Freud believe that human are motivated by the unconscious, where the Id is found along with the aggression and sex instincts

5. Models of the Mind

6. 1.UNCONSCIOUS • Contains all the feeling, urges or instinct that are beyond our awareness but it affect our expression, feeling, action (E.g. Slip of tongue, dreams, wishes )

7. PRECONSCIOUS • Facts stored in a part of the brain, which are not conscious but are available for possible use in the future (E.g. A person will never think of her home address at that moment but when her friend ask for it, she can easily recall it)

8. CONSCIOUS • Only level of mental life that are directly available to us • The awareness of our own mental process (Thoughts/feeling)

9. STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY

10. ID •Operates on PLEASURE PRINCIPE – to gain pleasure, avoid pain •Driven by sexual and aggressive urge

11. Eros (life instinct) helps the individual to survive; it directs life-sustaining activities such as respiration, eating, and sex (Freud, 1925). The energy created by the life instincts is known as libido .

12. Thanatos or death instinct is viewed as a set of destructive forces present in all human beings (Freud, 1920). When this energy is directed outward onto others, it is expressed as aggression and violence.

13. EGO •The rational level of personality •Operates on REALITY PRINCIPLE –does realistic and logical thinking •The balance between Id and Superego

14. superego Operates on MORAL PRINCIPLE •Able to differentiate between good and bad, right and wrong •If people follow their superego, they will feel proud but if they don’t follow, they will feel guilty and anxious

15. Anxiety It is a state of tension that motivates an individual to do something. • It arises out of a conflict among the id, the ego and the superego

16. Reality Anxiety This is the most basic form of anxiety and is typically based on fears of real and possible events, such as being bitten by a dog or falling from a ladder. The most common way of reducing tension from Reality Anxiety is taking oneself away from the situation, running away from the dog or simply refusing to go up the ladder.

17. Neurotic Anxiety This is a form of anxiety which comes from an unconscious fear that the basic impulses of the ID leading to eventual punishment

18. Moral Anxiety This form of anxiety comes from the Superego in the form of a fear of violating values and moral codes, and appears as feelings of guilt or shame.