Psychodynamic perspective deals with the issues of the inner forces interacting with outer forces in a person’s environment to make up that individual’s personality. (Wormer, 2011). Sigmund Freud was an extreme believer in this perspective because he felt that issues originated from childhood experiences. Some of these experiences may not even be remembered by the individual but may be buried inside the mind to protect the person from remembering something painful (Wormer 2011). The id, ego, and superego were also described as the specific parts which make up the personality. Each of these levels has specific forces that drive our behaviors from a very young age and for the rest of our lives. These forces vary between each level. They include pleasure seeking instincts from the id, while the ego allows us to be able to balance finding pleasure while making conscious decisions that won’t harm us. Lastly, the superego helps in forming morals that drive us to behave in the way we see as right while also putting constraints on our pleasure seeking parts so that we don’t harm ourselves (Stafford 2016). Using this belief, Freud started to focus on human behavior and the root causes. …show more content…
These issues are commonly known as defense mechanisms. These mechanisms can include regression which is returning to a child-like state, repression or the inability to remember a painful event, and projection or seeing what you don’t like about yourself in other people (Wormer, 2011). These defense mechanisms also intensify when we are forced to deal with too many conflicts at once. The idea that humans can use these defense mechanisms without being aware of it is largely accepted thanks to Sigmund Freud (Wormer, 2011). However, this was not the only idea that arose from this