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Throughout history, people have strived to determine the origin of mental illness. Since the19th

century psychologists have debated the issue, which eventually led to the development of

psychological theories. At the fore front of these developments was Freud who essentially saw

mental illness arising from childhood trauma and such trauma could be cured by the encouraging

the client to recal past experiences.

In the first half of this essay I will describe and compare both Psychodynamic and Cognitive-

behavioural approaches, before contrasting the differences between both psychological practices.

Psychodynamic counselling is defined as a "Psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious

dynamics within the individual, instinctual Psychodynamic perspective is mostly centered on inner

conflicts and how such conflicts affect development through out life. Sigmund Freud founded the

general basis of this theory, believing that inner conflicts will normally arise from childhood and

can often lead to mental illness. This is done by impeding the balanced development of the three

systems that constitute the human Psyche. These three systems are the ID, which is the innate

sexual and aggressive drives; the ego, which is the conscious part of the brain that mediates

between reality and unconscious, and finally the super ego, this controls primitive impulses of the

Id and can represents moral ideals.

Many psychologists believe that mental disorders are the direct result of psychodynamic conflicts

that cannot be dealt with by the clients own coping mechanism; they do not satisfy both the

superego and the ID. For some people these internal mechanisms are insufficient. This in turn

often leads to illness. The psychodynamic approach still believes that solutions lie in child hood

and the clients are not aware of their real motivation.



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