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Case study: Jane

Psychological (psychoanalytic) perspective
According to Huffman (2009), the purposes of psychology can be defined according to a four-step process. The first basic goal of the discipline is descriptive in nature. The first goal of a psychologist is to describe the behaviors that are occurring, the second goal is to explain them, the third is to predict the likelihood of what behaviors will occur in the future, and the final goal is to change the behaviors to prevent unwanted outcomes and encourage more desirable goals.
In the case of Jane, from a purely descriptive point of view from a psychoanalytic perspective, the therapist is confronted with a young woman whose life has almost been entirely defined by negative relationships with men. Her father was alternately abusive and overly compliant, depending on how Jane was able to use her feminine wiles with him. Freud would see Janes behaviors as the result of an unresolved Electra complex, where a young woman, after being frustrated that she cannot possess her mother because she lacks a penis, views her father as a kind of surrogate, masculine-derived source of phallic power.
This relationship with the father is then transferred to