1. Every unit is the same format
Psychology layout
Every unit is the same format

2. 6 key areas Historical development and cultural context Key Concepts
Basic assumptions
Application
Methodology
Strengths and Weaknesses

3. Psychodynamic Historical development and cultural context
Victorian Society
The structuralist vs. functionalist debate
The role of Freud
The role of the two world wars

4. Psychodynamic Key Concepts The personality triad
Psychosexual development
The unconscious - individual and collective
Drive Theory
Attachment theory
Psychosocial development
Archtypes

5. Psychodynamic Key Concepts Know the theorists! Freud Jung Adler
Anna Freud
Adler…

6. Psychodynamic Basic assumptions
The major causes of behaviour have their origin in the unconscious.
Psychic determinism: all behaviour has a cause/reason.
Behaviour is motivated by instinctual drives.
Different parts of the unconscious mind are in contant struggle.
Personality is shaped as the drives are modified by different conflicts at different stages of one's life.

7. Psychodynamic Gender role development Psychotherapy
Application
Gender role development
Psychotherapy
Personality types/theory

8. Psychodynamic Case studies - extrinsic vs. intrinsic Dream analysis
Methodology
Case studies - extrinsic vs. intrinsic
Dream analysis
Free association
Projective tests (TAT, Rorschach)
Ethical considerations

9. Psychodynamic Strengths vs Weaknesses
Freud's ideas had a significant impact on psychology.
Freud developed the case study method.
Freud's theory has had some experimental support
Psychoanalysis has proven very effective for many patients.

10. Psychodynamic Strengths vs Weaknesses
A large majority of the theory is unrefutable and so is unscientific.
Theory is based on historical reconstruction.
There are problems of construct validity with several key concepts.
Sample was primarily abnormal - and limited to a certain culture and class.
Until recently, the perspective was primarily androcentric.