Psychodynamics

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Who is Joseph Breuer?

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mentor of Freud, this doctor had the famous patient we know as "Anna O" who he diagnosed as having "hysterical neurosis"

invented the "talking cure"

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What are the Structural Model and the Topographical Model?

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Structural model of personality - id, ego, super ego

Topographical model of mind - conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

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The Id - what is it?

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Most primitive & least accessible part of the personality. Where sexual & aggressive insticts are; also the libido; it operates on the basis of the "pleasure principle"

This exists before the other ego functions develop

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What is the preconscious?

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intermediate zone; where the material is accessible to consciousness w/moderate effort

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What is the Ego?

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part of Freud's structural model, it negotiates between the demands of the id & the limits of the external world; it operates on the basis of the "Reality Principle"

Derives motive power from the id

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What is the Superego?

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"over I" is a kind of internalized parental voice that is formed in early childhood. It is a response to the rules & reinforcements provided by parents & other caretakers

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What is the Primary Process

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Developed by Freud, this type of thinking produces images of instant wish-fulfillment in the absence of real-world gratification to reduce tension. Since wish fulfillment is imaginary this only results in a temporary reduction in tension

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What is Moral Anxiety?
Neurotic Anxiety?

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Moral: ego's fear of being punished w/guilt by the superego

Neurotic: ego's fear of potential punishments

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What are Defense Mechanisms?

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unconscious distortions of the exterior reality used by ego to alleviate anxiety;

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What are some Defense Mechanisms?

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Denial, repression (most basic), sublimation (a more mature one),

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Oedipus Complex

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Child becomes jealous of same sex parent & believes they are jealous of them. This is during phallic stage of development

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What are neurosis?

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The reliance upon primitive defenses cause this.

Based on the age a person might get stuck in during psychosexual development

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Superego

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Formed through the resolution of their oedipal conflict when they ID w/same sex parent.

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Life instincts

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eros; deal w/survival, reproduction, and pleasure

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Death instincts

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They are reflections of an unconscious desire to cease to exist as a conscious entity;

they are difficult to observe b/c they are held in check by the life instincts

least popular of his theories and adopted when he was feeling at his worst

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Free Associations - what are these?

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Freud believed that the unconscious material produced by this was symbolic in nature b/c they were easier for the patient to handle the represented information in this form.

They are ways the Id would come out w/o being blocked by the superego

"Freudian Slip"

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What did Freud think was the goal of therapy?

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Bring your insides out and therapist is just there to poke it and bring it out;

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What is the manifest content of dreams?

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The literal images of the dream. Freud looked at this and interpreted the latent content out of

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Transference - how did Freud explain this?

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Freud said that these are the feelings the client has for key people in real life, which they have displaced onto the therapist. They are an obstacle to treatment, but Freud did admit that they could provide insights into why clients came in.

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Alfred Adler - what did he reject in Freud's theory? What did he suggest instead?

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He disagreed w/Freud's emphasis on sexuality and instead though humans beings were primarily concerned/motivated by personal and social power.

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What is Individual Psychology and who came up with it?

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Adler came up with it. In Individual Psychology he focused on inferiority complexes and types of compensatory behaviors that people use to try and overcome them.

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Who is associated w/the "Creative Self"? The "style of life"?

What are these?

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Adler's primary personality constructs. These refer to the unique individuals' styles and systems of meaning. The style of life is formed around age 4-5.

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What are Inferiority Complexes?

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Adler believed ppl develop them around parts of themselves they feel to be inadequate. Inferiority feelings are feelings related to these and when they become overwhelming a person forms a complex

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What is compensation?

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This is how people respond to their sense of inferiority (Adler)

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What is a Superiority Complex?

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When someone feels so inferior and responds by over compensating for it

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Who is Carl Jung? What did he contribute

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2nd follower to break from Freud over sexuality's attachment;
-His conscious and unconscious is more complex than Freud;
-dvlped "persona" and 4 basic functions of consciousness;
-personal unconscious(usually where complexes are)/collective unconscious

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What is Jung's version of Ego?

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It is where the self-observing part of the conscious exists. We consciously correct a persona

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What are the four functions of consciousness?

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Thinking
Feeling
Sensation
Intuition

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Anna Freud

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Successor to Freudian analysis; she formed Ego Psychology based on the defense mechanisms

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What is Ego Psychology?

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Ego Psychology emphasized working w/the client through the ego by interpreting their use of defenses; it expanded upon the understanding of the defensive structure and introduced new defenses

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What is "counter-transference" and who emphasized it?

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Ego psychologists emphasized this; it is when the therapist reciprocally displaces feelings about key figures in his/her life onto the client; ego psychologists explored transference as a tool in psychotherapy but saw counter-transference as a problem

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What did Anna Freud add on to the Defense Mechanisms?

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Denial, Displacement, Projection, Rationalization, Reaction Formation, Regression, Repression, Sublimation

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What were Jung's archetypes w/in the collective unconscious?

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anime- female or male soul
shadow- repressed personality
mother archetype

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The bridge between Freud & Object Relations - Melanie Klein

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-adopted Freud's death instincts
-innate drives exist but focus on forming relationship
-said baby goes from Paranoid-Schizoid to Depressive
- play therapy