NAME: AGILEBU MARY MICHAELFACULTY: FOBAMATRICC NO: LMBA4-05/18-00016ASSIGNMENT The Psychodynamic model states that people tend to be successful and self-employed because of “troubled childhood”.
The troubled childhood days are a result of abuses, low self-esteem, low level of confidence and self esteem. Growing in such an environment some people do have suppressed wishes and dreams towards those in control (Jignesh Rathod, 2017).You are strongly advised to refer the relevant topics covered in this module and refer to real-life industry examples and address the following requirements.1. Critically articulate the theory or the model associated with the information provided above.
2. Through a real time example of a businessmen associated with the model, critically examine the creative and innovation he adapted in his business to be successfulQuestion 1: Critically articulate the theory or the model associated with the information provided aboveINTRODUCTIONThe psychodynamic approach comprises all the models in psychology which see human’s operative built upon the interface of energies and forces inside the individual, mostly unconscious, and amongst the diverse structures of the character. Freud’s psychoanalysis remained the novel psychodynamic concept, nevertheless the entire psychodynamic method contained all models that remained grounded on his ideas, the words’ psychodynamic and psychoanalytic was regularly jumbled. Recollect that Freud’s concepts stayed psychoanalytic, but the term ‘psychodynamic’ mentioned to both his philosophies and those of his supporters. Freud’s psychoanalysis is equally a concept and rehabilitation.Sigmund Freud (amongst the 1890s and the 1930s) established a group of philosophies that have designed the foundation of the psychodynamic method to psychology. His models are efficiently acquired – i.
e., grounded on what his patients told him during a therapy. The psychodynamic therapist would regularly be giving to the patient for misery or worry associated syndromes. Through his psychodynamic philosophy of the psyche, Sigmund Freud declared that our character and the intellectual problems that we grieve can be sketched outside our conscious self-discipline – that our unintentional mind, and the inborn instincts that we might not be alert of, are what inspires the mode in which we act. Freud remained an initial browser of speaking remedy, which presumed that by speaking about an issue with a psychotherapist, an individual can recognize any problems that may have happened previously in lifetime and in chance, overpowered the existing inner battles of their unconscious observance. His interest was in the changing aspects of the mind – the conscious and its subconscious influences. He felt that the energy in the psyche was an endless value, and so instead of vanishing from the conscious, it would shape up in the subconscious and cause cumulative inner tension until it was addressed.
For example, if something annoys you, the liveliness of your anger does not expend itself if you internalize it. Rather, it may be moved to the subconscious, and lead to a suppressed anger which you may be ignorant of on a conscious level. Freud claimed that the human psyche contained of three separate areas – the id, ego, and superego – which compete against one another for control over our behavior.THE ID signifies our most thoughtless, wild needs, and pay no respect for what is suitable or sensible. Inborn characters such as the need for food, water, warmth and sexual desires originate in our id.
In a sense, the id is our ‘inner child’ – it drives our natural behaviors from birth and supposes its anxieties to be met instantly, irrespective of any penalties. The id stands by the Desire Code, which declares that we seek to maximize pleasure and sidestep pain wherever possible. Also confined within the id is the death determination, a self-destructive impulsiveness which drives us to the end of our life.THE EGOThe next component of the psyche is the ego, which acts as a midway between the awkward demands of the id and the outside reality. It tries to please the desires of the id as much as is virtually possible without essentially considering why some demands might be unreasonable. The ego remains self-centred and does not ponder on other people’s needs or wishes. It acts according to the Realism Attitude, which, is different from the Desire Code of the ID, takes the confines of what can be gotten from the outside world.THE SUPEREGOThe final factor of our psyche is the superego.
This senses concern for others and again tries to satisfy the wants of the id, but recognize that some of those wants may unfavorably touch others. It acts as a filter for our behavior and preserves our conscience, leading to considering other people’s emotions and to demonstrative responsibility. CRITICAL EVALUATIONThe utmost reproach of the psychodynamic approach is that it is irrational in its examination of human behavior. Many of the perceptions central to Freud’s theories are independent, and as such, tough to exam technically. For example, how is it conceivable to scientifically study perceptions like the unconscious mind or the triple personality? In this reverence, it could be claimed that the psychodynamic viewpoint is confirmable as its theories cannot be empirically examined. However, cognitive psychology has recognized unconscious procedures, such as procedural memory (Tulving, 1972), automatic processing (Bargh & Chartrand, 1999; Stroop, 1935), and social psychology have revealed the position of implied processing (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995).
Such experimental results have established the character of unconscious processes in human behaviour.Kline (1989) claims that psychodynamic theory contains a sequence of hypotheses, some of which are more simply verified than others, and some with more subsidiary evidence than others. Also, while the theories of the psychodynamic approach may not be effortlessly verified, this does not mean that it does not have solid descriptive control. However, most of the proves for psychodynamic theories is interpreted from Freud’s case studies. The core situation now is that the case studies are supported on reviewing one individual in detail, and with input to Freud, the persons in question are most often his patients. This makes inductive reasoning to the whole world tough. Other tricks with the case study technique is that it is inclined to scientist favouritism.
Review of Freud’s scientific effort advises that he occasionally one-sided his patients’ case antiquities to ‘fit’ with his theory (Sulloway, 1991). The humanistic approach makes the reproach that the psychodynamic viewpoint is too settled. Freud proposes that all views, characters, and reactions are resolute by our infant understandings and unconscious psychological procedures. This is dimness because it recommends, we have no conscious power over our actions, parting slight room for the knowledge of own action.
Question2. Through a real time example of a businessmen associated with the model, critically examine the creative and innovation he adapted in his business to be successfulTHE SUCCESS STORY OF OPRAH WINFREY, the wealthiest African American of the 20th era, was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1958, on 29th of January. She is recognized as the most self-made American television fabricator, host, and humanitarian and is among the utmost powerful women in the universe. She did not have a hopeful infancy and had to experience a diversity of poverties in her adolescent life. After her parents’ parting, she was referred to her grandparents, to lived in so much lack.
Some say that she used to dress on clothes made of potato sack. She united with her mother at the age of 6 who relocated with her to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her mother spent her all day out employed as a maid at homes and had no time for petite Winfrey. At the age of nine, as she says, she was raped by her cousin, her uncle, and a family friend. When she could not take it anymore, she flees away from her home at the age of 13 and had a child at 14.
After her son’s demise in embryonic stage, she went back to live with her hair stylist father in Tennessee. This was the first time, as she recollected, she that she studied extremely hard and attained an honours’ student. Her devotion shortly was rewarded and she turned out to be the most popular student at East Nashville High School and gained numerous honors in open speech competition. Later, she went to study communication from Tennessee State University.At the age of 19, her life was turned around when she was employed at a local Radio Station as a co-anchor for the local evening news.
In 1984, she underway to host ‘AM Chicago’, an early morning talk show where she shared her story and used it to motivate other women who had similar experience with her, which later most watched show in America. Later, it was retitled as ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. The combined talk show turns out to be the most widespread show in the Television antiquity with over 30 million American audiences and traversed across 144 nations international. She has also shown herself as the greatest significant spiritual frontrunner through ‘Change Your Life TV’ with 22 million feminine spectators.
Apart from being a TV host and producer, she is the co-founder of Oxygen Media and initiator of Oprah Magazine. In 1998, she began a contribution named “Oprah’s Angel Network” for which she handles all organizational costs. She is recognized as the 32nd most humanitarian person in the universe. In 2005, Business Week recruited her name amongst 50 most substantial humanitarians for her involvement which was comparable to $303 million dollars. As said by Forbes of 2009, her valuable is $2.7 billion dollar.
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