Psychodynamic Theory, also known as Dynamic Psychology theory, studies psychological forces that underlie human behavior, emphasizing the interplay between unconscious and conscious motivation. With the struggle of different elements of personality, at any given time behavior, thoughts and emotions show the outcome of an individual. Our three-part iceberg does a great deal to behavior, thoughts and emotions. The “id” is there from birth and by containing instinctual drive, such a sex, aggression, and entirely in the unconscious. From the first year of life the “ego” develops, controlling reason and good sense and coping with frustration. The super ego, developed during early childhood, determines right and wrong and causes guilt and shame when something goes against its moral compass, according for Freud, there are five periods of psychosexual development that make up personality development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital. Because it is believed that finding......
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