Psychoanalytic Model

Psychoanalytic Model

Psychoanalytic theory was developed by Sigmund Freud in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focused on the nature of deviant behavior and proposed a new perspective on human development. Many of Freud’s ideas were controversial. Particularly in the Victorian society of that time. Objective observation of human behavior was a great contribution of the psychoanalysts. As was the identification of a mental structure. Such concepts as id. Ego, super ego, and ego defense mechanisms are still widely used. Most people also accept the existence of an unconscious level of mental functioning first introduced by Freud.

Role of nurses according to this model is to try to do assessment of traumatic circumstances or that are considered significant stressor in the past, for example (once in the punishment of parents, ever on sodomy, at roughly treated, the neglected, brought up with violence, raped in childhood ), by using the therapeutic communication approach after trust is established