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01a_Psychodynamic: Freud Flashcards

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Psychodynamic Psychotherapies:

Shared Assumptions

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Behavior motivated by unconscious processes

INSIGHT into unconscious processes is a key component of therapy

Early development has profound effect on adult functioning

Universal principles explain development and behavior

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Determinants of Human Development and Behavior

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Irrational forces

Unconscious motivations

Biological and instinctual needs and drives

Psychosexual events during the first five years of life

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Personality Theory Components

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Structural Theory (id, ego, superego)

Developmental Theory (psychosexual stages)

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

The Id

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Source of all Psychic energy

Consists of life and death instincts

Operates on the Pleasure Principle

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Pleasure Principle

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Immediate gratification of instinctual drives and needs

Goal is to avoid tension

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

The Ego

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Develops in response to the id’s inability to gratify all its needs

Operates on the Reality Principle

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Reality Principle

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Deferred gratification until an appropriate object is available in reality

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Ego’s Primary Task

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Ego mediates conflicting demands between id and reality, and between id and the superego

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Secondary Process Thinking

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Ego’s realistic, rational thinking and planning

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

The Superego

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Represents internalization of society’s values and standards

Developed through parental rewards and punishment

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Difference between Ego and Superego’s relationship to the ID

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Ego postpones gratification of the id’s instincts

Superego attempts to permanently block the id’s socially unacceptable impulses

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Approximate age of development of Id, Ego, Superego

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Id: present at birth

Ego: 6 months

Superego: 4-5 y.o.

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Developmental Theory Overview

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Emphasizes sexual drives of the id

Five psychosexual stages of development

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Five psychosexual stages of development

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Oral (0-1)

Anal (1-3)

Phallic (3-6)

Latency (6-12)

Genital (12+)

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Role of the Libido in psychosexual stages

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The id’s libido (sexual energy) is centered on a different part of the body

Over-or under-gratification of sexual needs associated with different personality outcomes

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Anxiety

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Alerts ego to danger arising from conflict between id and superego, or real danger from external threat

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Defense Mechanisms Etiology

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Ego resorts to Defense Mechanisms when it is unable to ward off danger through rational realistic means

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Defense Mechanisms: Two characteristics

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Operate on unconscious level

Serve to deny or distort reality

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Repression

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Excludes the id’s drives and needs by maintaining them in the unconscious

*Most basic and underlying defense mechanism

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Reaction Formation

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Avoidance of anxiety-evoking impulse by expressing its opposite

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Projection

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Attributing a threatening impulse to another person or other external source

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Defense Mechanisms: adaptive vs maladaptive

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Adaptive: reduce anxiety

Maladaptive: when they become the ego’s habitual way of dealing with danger

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

View of Maladaptive Behavior

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Psychopathology stems from an unconscious, unresolved conflict that occurred during childhood

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Freudian Psychoanalysis conceptualization of:

Phobias

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Displacement of unresolved conflict onto a symbolic object/event

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Freudian Psychoanalysis conceptualization of:

Depression

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Object loss coupled with anger toward the object turned inward

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Freudian Psychoanalysis conceptualization of:

Mania

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Defense against libidinal or aggressive urges that threaten to overwhelm the ego

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Therapy Goals

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Bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness

Integrate previously repressed material into the personality

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Targets of Analysis

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Free associations

Dreams

Resistances

Transferences

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Therapy Techniques

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Confrontation

Clarification

Interpretation

Working through

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Confrontation

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Making statements that help the client see their behavior in a new way

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Clarification

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Clarifying client’s feelings and restating their remarks in clearer terms

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Interpretation

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Explicitly connecting current behavior to unconscious processes

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Catharsis

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Emotional release resulting from the recall of unconscious material

Paves the way for insight into how unconscious processes affect current behaviors

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Working Through

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Final and longest stage in psychoanalysis

Gradual assimilation of new insights into personality

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Three factors that contribute to improvement

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Catharsis

Insight

Working through

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Recent Modifications

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More collaborative, egalitarian view of therapeutic relationship

Reconceptualization of transference and countertransference

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Updated View of Transference

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Transference = attempt to imbue therapist’s actual behavior with personal meaning

*Previously viewed as a distortion

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Freudian Psychoanalysis:

Updated View of Countertransference

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Potential source of information

Important contributor to the curative process

*Previously viewed as a distorted response to the patient

EPPP B1: Clinical Psychology (24 decks)

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