Psychodynamic Psychology

Topics and Activities

A. Historical and Cultural Contexts:

1. Group research and presentations

Topics

19th Century Victorian Society

20th Century Events 1900-1945.

Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

Science in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries

Freud: Family Backgroiund, Education, Seminal Experience

2. The Major Features of Victorian Morality

3. Video Young Dr Freud

4. PowerPoint Lecture

4. Museum Visitis: The Freud Museum in Britain
Library of Congress Exhibit
Freud Museum in Vienna

B. Techniques for Research
1. Case Studies: Little Hans Case Study

2. Interpretations of Dreams

3. Dream Interpretation

4. Reseach Techniques PowerPoint Presentation

Take a critical look at this example of pop psychology and dream analysis.
Clinical and experimental validation of concepts

C. Theories

1. Power Point Lecture

2. Visit an award winning web site on Freud by Maria Rowell
Neo-Freudian Theories: Class Presentations

Rubric for PP Presentation on the Neo-Freudians
D. Application

1. Psychodynamic view of human behavior
2. The Development of Personality

3. The Psychodynamic perspective applied to everyday living: Think Like a Shrink

Valuable Links

Glassman's Approaches to Psychology is the base text for this option. Supporting material can be found on this link.

Assessment:

Essay: Discuss the historical and cultural context of Freud's theories of behaviour.

Resources:

1. Glassmam
2. Articles "The Father of Psychoanalysis" and "A Freudiean Fixation"
3. "Some Influences of Freud's Work"
4. Video: Young Dr Freud
5. History of Madness PP

Unit 1 Introduction

Objectives
1. Define psychology
2. Understand the requirements of the IB Psychology Course.
3. Prepare for the use of technology in the IB Psychology Course. Topic

1. What is psychology?
a) Groupwork: Psychology Today and Yesterday
b) Instructions for your Weblog
c) Setting up your IB Psychology weblog. Post your first entry: My motivations for studying psychology.

2. What is IB Psychology?
a) Course requirements and assessment

3. The History of Psychology and the Scientific Method
b) Glassman pp.2-5,13-41
c) Video “Past Present and Promise”
c) The Perspectives and great names.
d) Class discussion: Why do we do the things that we do?
e) Research Methods


5. Assessment
Read the article "Best of the Century" and write a weblog response that answers the following questions:
1. What have been the major changes in psychotherapy this century?
2. Twenty breakthroughs are identified. Which 5 do you think are the most important? Justify your answer.

Your Weblog

Setting up your blog
Go to http://blogger.com/

Step One
i. Choose a user name: You will use this to log on each time you want to make a posting to any one of your blogs.
Suggested format:
e.g. peteranthony2006 (no spaces)
Write this down.
ii.Display name: This name will appear as the author of postings and comments. To protect your privacy use only your first name:
e.g. Peter @ RIS
(spaces okay)
You can change this later.


Step Two
i. Blog Title: This is the name that will appear as your banner at the top of your blog.
e.g. Peter’s IB Psychology Blog
You can change this later or delete it entirely and create a new blog.

ii. Blog Address (URL): This is the address of your blog so it is best to keep in simple.
e.g. peteribpsychology2006 (no spaces)
(The entire URL in this case will be peteribpsychology2006@blogspot.com Write this down until you add it to your favorites)
You can change this later.
Step Three
i. Choose your template
ii. Make a posting: This could be a welcome message to readers of your blog.


Fine-tuning your blog

Log on to Blogger using you user name and password.
Go to the Dashboard.
Go to Edit Profile. To ensure your privacy uncheck “Share my profile” This is an important so that your privacy is protected.
Return to the Dashboard
Select Change Setting Icon (It is a blue cog.)
You have a number of tabs most of which are for advanced use only.
Go to the Formatting tab and change to Thailand Time
Go to the Comments tab and select “Show Word Verification for Comments”. (This will stop you being spammed.)