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4.2 - Psychoanalytic + Psychodynamic Approaches Flashcards

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freudy’s bday + dday

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b: 1856
d: 1939

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mental energy

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energy that the psyche needs to function

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libido/life drive/sexual drive

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motive towards procreation, protection, enjoyment of life, growth

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thanatos

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motive towards destruction, disorder, ultimately death

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PSYCHOSEXUAL: ORAL

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underfed = oral passive, trusting, dependent

overfed = oral aggressive - aggressive, dominating

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PSYCHOSEXUAL: ANAL

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toilet training too harsh = anal retentive, tidiness, obsessiveness, mean, stubborn

too lax = anal expulsive - untidyness, generosity

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PSYCHOSEXUAL: PHALLIC

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abnormal family set-up leading to unusual relationship with mother/father = vanity, self-obsession, sexual anxiety, inadequacy, inferiority, envy

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PSYCHOSEXUAL: GENITAL

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settling down in loving one-to-one relationship with another = well-adjusted, mature, able to love + be loved, sexual instinct directed to heterosexual pleasure

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psychic determinism

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everything that happens in a person’s psyche has a specific cause - cause lies in processes and structure of personality

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psyches

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psychological result of mainly the brain + partly the rest of the body’s physiological functions

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CONSCIOUS

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tip of the iceberg - objects perceives - memories, stream of thought

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PRECONSCIOUS

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below level of immediate conscious awareness - memories + emotions that haven’t been repressed can be recalled

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UNCONSCIOUS

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“the star of the show”
hidden, secret realm Freud thought contains significant portion of mental life, own rules - repressed memories etc

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ID

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irrational, emotional part of the mind

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pleasure principle

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need of an immediate gratification of the Id’s urges (raw biological desires)

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Ego

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rational + decision-making part of mind

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reality principle

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force that delays gratification of Id’s needs until appropriate conditions present

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Superego

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moral, balance, mediator between id + ego

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psychic conflict

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friction btwn different parts of the mind, w/o interna compromises between motivation, morality, practicality, sexual/aggressive impulses, internal conflict between needs + impulses ensue

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repression

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unconscious employed by EGO to keep disturbing thoughts from becoming conscious - e.g. Oedipus complex, aggression repressed. trauma repression

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denial

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blocking external events + reality from awareness, refusal to experience/accept events. e.g. smokers deny smoking bad for health

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projection

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individuals attribute own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, motives to another e.g. you hate someone but superego says that’s unacceptable so you think they hate you instead

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displacement

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satisfying an impulse (usually aggression) with substitute –> frustration at work = kick dog at home

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regression

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ego revert to earlier stage of development usually in response to stress e.g. child in hospital wet bed/suck thumb

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sublimation`

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satisfying impulse with substitute in socially acceptable way - putting emotions e.g. sadness into constructive e.g. play piano

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what is the ego anxious about

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id getting out of control and doing something terrible, superego getting out of control + making you feel guilty about actions, thoughts, desires

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(ego) defence mechanisms

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largely unconscious reactions that protect a person from primarily feelings of anxiety + guilt

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Jung basic facts

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  • 1875-1961
  • EXPERIMENTAL psychologist
  • jung dealt w more extreme psychiatric experiences
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Jung: complex

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blend of archetypal patterns + material in the personal unconscious

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colective unconscious archetypes

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  • mother: kind, generous, devouring, frightening
  • hero: defeat evil, sacrifice self, villain, demon
  • trickster: joker, prankster, sacred clown
  • child: hope for the future
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Complexes: word association tasks

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  • developed by Jung based on Galton’s work
  • given a stimulus word + respond w/ first word that occurs to you
  • variables assessed: response time, vocal tone, galvanic skin response, heart rate
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complexes: word association task results

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  • responses to emotional stimuli different from neutral
  • patterns of response revealed: 11 unconscious psyshological paternsri
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contributions of psychoanalytic

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  • first formed personality theories
  • propose existence of unconscious processes + forces
  • first theories to focus + explain effects of early development on adult personality
  • contributions to TREATMENT OF ANXIETY + MOOD DISORDERS: dream therapy, clinical hypnosis, free association
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Criticism of psychoanalytic approach

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  • questionably scientific value
  • poor external validity
  • inadequate empirical evidence
  • UNFALSIFIABLE
  • function more as philosophies

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