Pt Ch 2

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Psychoanalisys

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Theory of personality

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Hysteria

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A disorder characterized by the paralysis or a the improper functioning of a body part.

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Cartharsis

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The process of removing hysterical symptoms by, "talking them out."

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Free Association Technique

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A technique discovered by Freud that replaced hypnosis when dealing with hysteria. Patients are required to verbalize every thought that comes to their mind, no matter how irrelevant or repugnant it may seem.

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What are the 3 levels of the mind?

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1) Conscious

2) Preconscious

3) Unconscious

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unconscious

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Contains all of the drives, urges, and instincts that are beyond people's awareness but nevertheless motivate most of their words, feelings, or actions.

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What are the two cornerstones of psychoanalyst?

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Aggression and sex

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repression

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The forcing of unwated, anxiety ridden experiences into the unconscious as a defense against that anxiety.

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Phylogenetic Endowment

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inherited unconscious images passed down to us from ancestors.

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Oepidus Complex

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Emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconcious, via dynamic repression, that concentrates upon a child's desire to have sex with the parent of the opposite sex.

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Preconscious

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Contains all of those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with difficulty.

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Conciousness

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Mental elements in awareness at any given point in time.

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Perceptual Conscious

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Turned toward the outer world and acts as a medium for the perceptual external stimuli. Or, what we percieve through our sensory organs, if not considered threatening, enters into our conscious.

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How can ideas reach the conscious?

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through the perceptual conscious, and also from within the mental structure. Ideas cloak themselves as harmless elements and evade the primary sensor in the preconscious. They then pass a final censor and come under the eye of the conscious.

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What are the 3 provinces of the mind?

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1) Id

2) Ego

3) Superego

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Id

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Unrealistic and pleasure seeking without regard for what is moral or just. Completely in the unconscious mind.

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Ego

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Predominately conscious. The only region of the mind in contact with reality. A person's sole source of communication with the external world.

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Superego

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unconscious ideal and morals incorporated from parents. Pushes ego to repress unacceptable drives and urges.

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Pleasure Principle

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Seeking immediate gratification of instinctual wishes and urges. Pays no attention to reality, reason, or consequences.

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Primary Process

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Primitive mental process used by the Id in an attmept to discharge the tension from instinctual drives.

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Secondary Process

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Uses logic, reasoning, and planning.

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Reality Principle

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Seeks to delay gratification of instinctual wishes and urges until an appropriate object is present.

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Idealistic Principle

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A subsystem of superego that tells people what they should do.

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Libido

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Sex drive

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What does a drive have?

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1) Impetus: Amount of force it exerts

2) Source: body region in excitation state

3) Aim: goal of seeking pleasure in removing excitation

4) object: Person or thing used to satisfy aim

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Name two drives

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Libido and aggression

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Primary Narcissism

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Primarily self-centered, with libido invested almost exclusively with their own ego.

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Secondary Narcissism

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Common although not universal. When someone reverts back to ego and becomes preoccupied with appearance or self-interests. Common during puberty.

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Anxiety

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a felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation warning a person of impending danger.

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Neurotic Anxiety

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Apprehension of unknown danger. Regards to the relationship between the Ego and Id.

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Moral Anxiety

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Stems from the conflict of the ego and superego. Someone may feel this type of anxiety if they yield to a temptation that the superego deems wrong.

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Realistic Anxiety

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Ego feels apprehension due to real danger.

example, driving on a crowded highway in an unknown part of town may produce this type of anxiety.

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Defense Mechanisms

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When the Ego tries to keep unacceptable drives, impulses, or urges from being expressed. In turn, this helps the Ego by reducing neurotic or moral anxiety.

Requires considerable expenditure of psychic energy to sustain defense.

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Name the different types of defense mechanisms?

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1) Repression

2) Reaction Formation

3) Displacement

4) Fixation

5) Regression

6) Projection

7) Introjection

8) Sublimation

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Reaction Formation

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses are mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency

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Displacement

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses are redirected to a safer target rather than towards the original target.

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Fixation

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses are avoided by remaining at a safer stage.

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Regression

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses are avoided by returning at an earlier safer stage.

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Projection

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses in the person are avoided by seeing them in others rather than in himself or herself.

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Introjection

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses in the person are avoided by incorporating positive qualities or himself or herself.

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Sublimation

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Anxiety producing emotions and impulses in the person are redirected into something that is valued by society.

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Name the stages of developement?

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1) Infantile (birth-5)

2) Latency Period (5-Puberty)

3) Genital Period (puberty-adulthood)

4) Maturity

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Fixation

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(stuck at a stage) Can result depending on how parents (society) reacts to a child at a stage.

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Regression

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(returning to an earlier stage) can result under stress if Ego is weak.

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Name the Phases of the Infantile Period

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1) Oral Phase

2) Anal Phase

3) Phallic Phase

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Oral Phase

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birth to 18 months. Sexual enegery directed to the nipple/breast. Made up of 2 periods.

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Oral-receptive

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focuses entirely on self and taking pleasure in sucking.

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Oral-Sadistic

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Frustrations of needs and emergence of teeth. Aggression begins to surface.

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Anal Phase (Sadistic Anal)

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Characterized by satisfaction gained through aggressive behavior and through the excretory function. Divided into two sub-phases

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Late-anal Period

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Focused on pleasure/ keeping objects

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Early-anal Period

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focused on destroying/losing objects

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Anal Triad

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Anal eroticism from holding in one's feces becomes transformed into orderliness, stinginess, and obstinacy that typifies the adult anal character.

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Anal Character

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People who continue to receive erotic satisfaction by keeping and possessing objects and arranging them in excessively neat and orderly fashion.

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Phallic Phase

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A time where the genital area becomes the main erogenous zone.

Male Oedipus Complex (castration anxiety)

Female Oedipus Complex (Penis envy)

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Latency Period

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A period of dormant psychosexual development. Brought about by the parents punishing sexual behavior.

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Genital Period

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Object of the sexual drive is another person

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Maturity

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Minimal repression and maximal consciousness of instinctual urges.

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Psychological Maturity

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A stage attained after a person has passed through the earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner.

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Manifest Content

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The surface meaning or conscious description of a dream given by the dreamer.

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Latent Content

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Refers to the unconscious content of a dream.

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Condensation

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refers to the fact that manifest dream content is not as extensive as the latent level, indicating that the unconscious material has be abbreviated or condensed before appearing at the manifest level.

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Transference

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Strong sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or negative, that patients develop towards their analyst during the course of treatment.

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Positive Transference

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permits the patient to more or less relive childhood experiences within the non-threatening climate of analytic treatment.

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Negative Transference

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A form of hostility that must be recognized by the therapist and explained to the patient so they can overcome any resistance.

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Resistance

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refers to a variety of unconscious responses used by the patients to block their own progress in therapy.

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Ego-ideal

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develops with experiences with rewards for proper behavior and tells us what we should do.

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Conscience

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results from experiences with punishments for improper behavior that tells us what we should not do.

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Parapraxes

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"freudian slips" or when a slip of the tongue actually reveals the unconscious.

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Aim-inhibited love

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When someone has sexual feelings for a sibling or family member, those feelings are repressed and turn into this type of love.

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Repetition compulsion

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dreams of people who have had traumatic experiences follow this principle rather than wish fulfillment.