Transcript Psychodynamic Evaluation

 Evaluate the psychodynamic approach
 Plan an evaluation essay
 Think up as many evaluation points as you can
about the psychodynamic approach
 Think N-NURDS
 Using the handout on the debates, decide
where the psychodynamic approach is.
 Need to also state whether it is a strength or a
weakness and why
 Fill in the debates table on the back page of
the debates handout.
 Wide variety of therapies, many shown to be
effective
 Dream analysis, free association,
psychoanalysis
 Read the scientific criteria, and explain why
the psychodynamic approach is not
scientific
All boys go through the Oedipus complex
where they sexually desire their mothers and
fear their fathers. The resolution of this
complex leads to the development of the
superego.
Funny, but I don’t remember ever fancying
my mother . . .
Of course you don’t. Your ego has
repressed it into your unconscious mind.
Those memories are inaccessible to you.
 Explain why in this example, the theory of
the Oedipus complex is unfalsifiable.
 Read back through all the evaluation points
on this handout. Highlight in two different
colours the strengths and the weaknesses.
Make sure to write down a key somewhere to
help you when you revise.
 Fill out the PEE table below which will help
you answer the evaluation question.