The psychodynamic approach is based on Sigmund Freud's ideas of unconscious thought, biological drives, and psychoanalysis which say that human nature is shaped by greedy instincts, demands of society, and childhood trauma. I disagree with this. I believe that there is much more to human nature than our cultural and social demands. Certainly, I believe that our interactions with our family and with society shape who we are, but I do not agree that biology, culture, and unconscious thought shape our human nature. To say this is to demean humanity to a more animalistic state. We are more than our biological urges, and that is what makes us human. Out of all of the different approaches to psychology, I feel that the psychodynamic approach explains human nature the worst and that the cognitive approach explains it the