Mrs R is in the adulthood development stage. She has a learning disability so is cognitively impaired. Physically Mrs R is overweight, suffers from epilepsy and is going through the menopause, this also has an emotional impact due to fluctuating hormone levels. Socially she has a very active and busy lifestyle, attends college, day centre, horse riding, as well as socialising, and regularly sees her family whom she is close too. She can at times appear to display signs of attention seeking behaviour. Freud has a psychodynamic theory of personality and it is based on the fact that the personality has 3 parts, the id, the ego and the superego and that these 3 part are in continual conflict, but need to be in harmony to maintain a healthy personality. He describes the id as being biological and in the unconscious part of the personality, he believes it operates on the ˜pleasure principle'. That its whole drive is about pleasure, wants and needs, instinctive and primitive. To allow the id to rule would mean displaying socially unacceptable behaviour. The ego he describes as the ˜reality principle', this part is mainly conscious. This part tries to get the balance between what is socially appropriate while at the same time trying to satisfy the desires of the id. Freud believes that the superego represents the part of the personality that has developed from our parental upbringing and social environment. That it is our morals, values and our sense of right and wrong, so would be in contradiction to the id. Often feelings of anxiety and guilt are due to the superego being over dominant. According to Freud's theory Mrs R's id could be dominating, and this could be the reason for her being overweight, she could be giving into her desire to eat, allowing her id to rule. It could also mean that due to Mrs R's learning difficulties her superego has not properly developed and that it affects her judgment and decisions. Freud also belie