(cited #1and #4) Psychoanalytic Approach The psychoanalytic approach assumes that psychopathology is due to the unconscious process, specifically repressed conflicts between the id and ego, and the id and superego. ... Classical Freudian theory emphasizes that the mind is divided into three parts, id, ego, and superego. ... The superego develops during early childhood for purpose of examing society's moral values as interpreted by ones parents. The interplay between the id, ego and superego results in conflict for most individuals at some point in development. ...

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Freud developed a structural model of the mind, which contained the id, the ego, and the superego. ... Finally, the superego acts as the conscience; it is the lawgiver and moral disciplinarian. Freud believed that anxiety stemmed from the suppression of one of the id's wishes by the superego. ...

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They do know, however, that content is completely disconnected from experience, and conscious, routine behavior, is in effect a wild and crazy bit of the "id," the most basic element of the personality; it is the source of the instincts and operates on the pleasure principle, popping into conflict with the "ego," the element of the mind that operates according to the reality principle and serves to satisfy the id and the superego (Schwartz). ...

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The Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield My name is John Johnson and I am Holden Caulfield's psychoanalyst. I have a PhD from Stanford University and have been working with teenagers for ten years. However, Holden Caulfield has been different then any other patient I have ever had. Even though...

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The idea in psychodynamic therapy is that conflict between the unconscious parts of the personality (the id and superego) is what causes anxiety and is dealt with by using defense mechanisms (Pomerantz, 2013). ...

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