Your Thoughtful Therapist

 Hi guys...I'm back with my new post...hope you all are healthy and in harmony :) In this blog, I have talked about various other approaches on personality and issues in personality theories and research which will help you to get thorough about this particular topic. Happy reading!! Psycho-dynamic Theories This approach was proposed by Sigmund Freud . His Psychoanalysis became both a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy (1920, 1938, 1940/1949). Psychoanalytic theory has 3 major parts -  Structure of Personality : In which the ego, id and the super-ego are the principal parts. Ego operates according to the reality principle that it delays satisfying id motives and channels behavior into more socially acceptable outlets; Id is a sort of storehouse of biologically based urges such as urge to eat, drink and especially to be sexually stimulated and it follows the pleasure principle in which the goal is to reduce the immediate tension created by biological drives and