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The Psychodynamic Approach encompasses both Freud’s theories and methods and those of his followers. Freud’s own theory was called Psychoanalysis which is both a theory and a therapy. The Psychodynamic Approach focuses upon the role that internal processes and past experience have in shaping a persons personality. These theorists believe that behaviour is guided by unconscious urges not rational thought. Freud’s theories are derived from what his patients told him during treatment. According to Freud all adult behaviour is driven by instinctual impulses and desires that originate in childhood. Most impulses are to do with sex and fantasies about behaviours that are prohibited by society and are therefore kept hidden by using defence mechanisms. In order to uncover our repressed unconscious wishes and desires which for Freud were the cause of adult neuroses, one needed to use psychoanalysis. The aim of this is to get the repressed emotions into the conscious where they can be......

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