Laundry treating appratus and controlling method thereof

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a clothes processing apparatus including a cabinet, a tub disposed inside the cabinet, a drum rotatably installed in the tub to receive the laundry, And a control unit for controlling the driving of the motor according to any one of a plurality of predetermined drum driving motions and a motor directly connected to the rotary shaft of the drum, wherein when the first motion of the plurality of drum driving motions is selected And controls the rotation of the motor so that a larger physical force is applied from the inner side of the drum than the static frictional force acting between the laundry and the drum in the process of falling of the laundry and contacting a part of the drum .