3.2.3 Psychodynamic Evaluation (Sch) Flashcards

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  1. Today Freudian concepts are viewed as what?
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Unscientific and out of date

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  1. The psychodynamic approach has difficulty producing what and why?
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Testable hypothesis

Focus on unconscious mind

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  1. Why is the unconscious mind difficult to study in a scientific way?
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Inaccessible

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  1. If we can’t prove basic psychodynamic concepts what can we not trust them to do?
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Explain the existence of complex disorders like schizophrenia

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  1. What basic psychodynamic concepts can we not prove?
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id
Ego
Superego
Unconscious mind

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  1. As the 20th century progressed what were psychologists dissatisfied with?
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Unscientific and unfalsifiable nature or the psychodynamic concepts

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  1. Today psychodynamic explanations for schizophrenia are viewed as what?
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Historic

Not a credible theory

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  1. Freud said it was for the future to decide what?
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Whether there was more delusion in his theory than he would like to admit

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  1. The fact the approach is difficult to falsify means we can never do what?
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Completely discredit it or discard the theory

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  1. What is it not impossible to do?
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Develop testable hypothesis from freuds ideas, though it is difficult

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  1. Fromm-reichmann suggested the mothers of people developing schizophrenia are controlling and distant, what would it be possible to do?
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Design a longitudinal prospective study following infants from birth to adulthood to investigate the link

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  1. The psychodynamic explanation overlooks the role of what?
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Genetics

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  1. Psychodynamic explanations suggest schizophrenia is the result of what?
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Early experience (nurture)

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  1. There is strong evidence for what?
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Biological factors in schizophrenia from family and twin studies

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  1. Strong evidence for biological factors comes from what type of studies?
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Adoption

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  1. What did Heston find in his adoption study?
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Of the 47 with schizophrenic mothers 5 developed it

Vs none of the controls (non schizophrenic parents)

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  1. It may be a co occurrence of what that is responsible for schizophrenia?
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Shared genes between the mother and child

Not the way the mother raises the child

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  1. The psychodynamic approach has failed to produce what?
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Effective treatment for schizophrenia

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  1. Freud believed individuals with schizophrenia were not suitable for what and why?
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Psychoanalysis

Lacked the insight for this talking treatment

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  1. Rosen proposed schizophrenia could be treated with what?
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Psychoanalytical techniques

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  1. Later research by Strupp found psychoanalytical techniques can have what effect?
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Harmful and damaging effects on those with schizophrenia

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  1. Strupp - This may be because techniques require the patient to do what?
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Experience memories and insights they aren’t emotionally capable of dealing with
Causing distress

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  1. This is a weakness as if an effective therapy can’t be established what does this mean?
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Underlying principles can’t be correct

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  1. The idea of the schizophrenogenic mother was popular when?
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1930s to 1970s when it was the focus of much psychiatric literature

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  1. Kasain examined hospital records and found what?
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33/45 cases of schizophrenia there was evidence of maternal overprotection

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  1. Further studies in the 60s and 70s appeared to confirm what?
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Schizophrenogenic mother theory

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  1. A closer look at Kasains study showed what about the cases?
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Almost a third did not have an overprotective mother making the evidence unconvincing

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  1. Why might researchers findings be bias?
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Researchers knew the hypothesis they could have been more likely to categorise normal behaviour as overprotection

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  1. Knowing what we now do about schizophrenia what does the schizophrenogenic mother seem?
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Mistaken

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  1. What does the schizophrenogenic mother concept do?
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Blame the mother having no scientific basis

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  1. What could the schizophrenogenic mother concept have caused?
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Harm to the mothers of schizophrenic individuals

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  1. Parker reviewed the schizophrenogenic mother concluding what probably exist?
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Distant and controlling mothers

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  1. But Parker said these distant and controlling women were no more likely to have what?
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Schizophrenic children

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  1. The concepts wrongness doesn’t mean parenting and environment play no role in what?
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Child’s mental health

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  1. A parents mental health can impact upon what?
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Child’s well being

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  1. But we can’t just say what?
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Parents mental wellbeing causes schizophrenia

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Con - what would be a better way to look at schizophrenia?

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Diathesis stress model

Looking at genes and environment