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The Psychodynamic Perspective

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The psychodynamic perspective explains personality through unconscious conflict and early developmental experience.

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A pattern of avoiding close relationships is traced to an unresolved conflict the person cannot report.

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Most specific psychodynamic claims are unfalsifiable. The unconscious influence on behavior is now well supported.