The psychodynamic personality approach suggests that personality is governed by unconscious forces that cannot be controlled. It also focusses on unconscious mental forces that shape our personalities and states that people are likely to be shaped by the manner in which children cope with sexual surges. Freud ( ) believes that there are conflicts which occur unconsciously in an individual. According to Freud (1925), an individual has a …show more content…
This is because it generated future work in personality and development which highlights that childhood is a critical period in development Fromkin, Krashen, Curtiss, Rigler, & Rigler (1977). It has also helped recognise that mental health problems are likely to be the cause of childhood trauma or unconscious conflicts. Another positive strength of the psychodynamic theory is that it explains that psychological factors used to explain psychical symptoms like paralysis which is currently regarded as conversion disorder. Conversion disorder derived from the work of Freud's. Freud believed that when an individual is emotionally stressed, conflicts and painful feelings are repressed. Freud believed that conflicts are kept from awareness or consciousness (Ryckman