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Psychodynamic Perspective Sleep Deprivation

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From a psychodynamic perspective sleep deprivation is driven by an unconscious internal tension to move towards a wish or move away from fear. Psychodynamic perspectives rest on three key premises. The first being individuals actions are determined by the way thoughts, feelings and desires are connected in their minds ((burton 2012_1) p12 -). This perspective is predicated on the foundation that humans are animals and their motives reflect their animal heritage. Like other animals, humans are motivated by drives, internal tension states that build up until they are stratified. Some of these drives are explicit and know but other are hidden, implicit (Textbook 367-368). According to the founder of the psychodynamic school, Sigmund Freud unconscious

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