Freud's Psychodynamic Explanation

Question 1

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Answer 1

• When someone with schizophrenia attempts to regain touch with reality and some ego control, they begin to hallucinate because Freud said that it could be one way of substituting for a lost sense of reality
• Freud hypothesised that individuals with schizophrenia find themselves reduced to an infantile state, they behave similarly to that of new born infants; being dominated by their animal instincts and incapable of organising their own behaviour

Question 2

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Answer 2

• It’s deterministic – we have no free will over our behaviour
• It’s reductionist – doesn’t consider the influence of the environment nor our biology/genetics