Sigmund Freud a psychiatrist, neurologist and key pioneer of the psychodynamic approach (including his psychoanalytic theory of personality) theorized that our mental activity is mostly unconscious, and it is this unconscious activity that causes our behavior. He explained that traumatic childhood experiences pushed into the unconscious mind that can later lead to mental disorders, and developed ‘talking cures’ psychoanalysis, or more generally termed psychotherapy to help release problematic repressed memories and relieve symptoms. Key assumptions of the Psychodynamic Approach are: Unconscious activity is the key determinate of how we behave, We possess innate ‘drives’ or ‘instincts’ that ‘energize’ our minds to motivate behavior as we develop through our lives,