... and conscience are constantly at war (Rungapadiachy, 1999). Freud believed that many impulses which are repressed by society or parents as a child do not disappear but remain in the unconscious and possibly reappear as symptoms of mental illness or emotional problems (Atkinson et al, 2000). The biological perspective views man as a biological organism and focuses on two major concerns, the mind and body and the influence of heredity (Gross, 1996). The biological perspective attempts to relate behaviour to the electrical and chemical events taking place within the body, much work has been done in this area by such people as Descartes who attempted to form a link between the body and the soul. Descartes felt that the soul interacted with the body through the pineal gland of the brain. However, it is the publication of Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859) that lead to a revolution in thought (Medcof & Roth, ...

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