Abnormal psychology

Abnormal psychology

Abnormal psychology

Introduction

Psychopathology is a subdivision of psychology and it is essentially the study of abnormal behavior and experience, and state parties understood as hypnosis and dreams. The study is to understand how this unusual and then take appropriate steps to change it.

What is abnormal behavior and the states change from culture to culture and from individual to individual. Today when we talk about abnormal operation, it is generally associated with a sort of mental disorder. In other words, abnormal psychology involves the study of people who can not adapt and function normally.

If you look at the origins of abnormal psychology, you will see that thousands of year's people have made an effort to understand and change what is seen as abnormal behavior. People thought that the anomalous behavior is due to three main reasons, supernatural, biological and psychological.

Psychodynamic

Sigmund Freud is considered the founder of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theory, if it is not modern psychology. There was a multitude of variations that have evolved and the term most often used to encompass all of these approaches is psycho. Terms such as: neurosis, conflict, attachment, object relations, unconscious, defense mechanisms, id, ego, superego, drives, libido, transfer, transfer-cons, and many others have emerged from this approach. Some of the main approaches are psychodynamic in category: Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), Adlerian Psychotherapy (Alfred Adler), analytic psychotherapy (Carl Jung), object relations (Mahler, Winnicott, Fairbairn, Klein, Gutrip, Kernberg and others ), and Self Psychology (Heinz Kohut).

Freud's original theories were based on the conflicts in his view, the heart of human existence. These conflicts arise from attempts to reconcile our biological self with our social self. Some aspects of these conflicts are unconscious and influence our behavior without our awareness. Psychodynamic therapies work to make the unconscious conscious so that we may better understand our needs ...