Question

Steve is having problems with unwanted feelings of anger and frustration at work. He consults with a psychologist who asks Steve many detailed questions about his early childhood and interprets Steve’s problems as being due to conflicts between his unconscious aggressive urges and his defense mechanisms. Steve’s therapist would most likely identify with which psychological perspective?

Answer 1

Answer:

Psychodynamics

Explanation:

Psychodynamics is an approach to psychology which systematically tries to understand the problem at hand by studying all the underlying aspects of a person's psyche.

Here, Steve's past experiences are being analyzed in the hope that they might shed some light on his feelings of instability. Tackling the cause of why he feels the way he feels is what the therapist is attempting.

Hence, Steve’s therapist would most likely identify with the psychodynamics psychological perspective.