The tendency to ferret out pleasure and meaning in ones life and avoid pain and uncertainty in order to actualize one's full potential and survive is the main driving force. ... In less then satisfactory conditions, such as a child who is raised in the ghetto with minimal income and harsh living conditions, a person will have different driving forces then those in "normal" conditions. ... This is also the main driving force in children, being young and unaware of what goes on in the real world, their driving force is survival and happiness, which is instinctual. ...

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You see, I was primarily working with people who were severely mentally disturbed, and I felt that was dealing with an extremely powerful force within these people's minds. I saw that this force was making life difficult and miserable for these people, and I was trying to explain why. ... A: Actually, I distinguished two driving forces: the sexual drive and the death drive. ... I wanted to make people understand that sexuality is more than something that evokes with puberty and is solely expressed in the marital bed, but that it is present from the moment of birth, and that it is, thro...

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As an individual who went through the extreme academic and exam oriented schooling system in an Asian country, I strive to create a teaching environment that will inspire hope, ignite the light of imagination and creativity as well as instill respect and love for education amongst my students. I bel...

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Freud's Theory of Defence Mechanisms Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is regarded as the earliest of those categorised as psychodynamic theories (Gray, 1999). J.P. Chaplin (1975, p.418) defines psychodynamic as "pertaining to the branch of psychology which inv...

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