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Clinical evidence for postulating the unconscious:

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Dreams
Slips of the tongue
Posthypnotic suggestions
Material derived from free-association and projective techniques
Symbolic content of psychotic symptoms
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Anxiety

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Feeling of dread resulting from repressed feelings, memories, and desires

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Anxiety

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Develops out of conflict among the id, ego, and superego to control psychic energy

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Three types of anxiety:

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Reality Anxiety
Neurotic Anxiety
Moral Anxiety

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Are normal behaviors which operate on an unconscious level and tend to deny or distort reality

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Help the individual cope with anxiety and prevent the ego from being overwhelmed

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Have adaptive value if they do not become a style of life to avoid facing reality

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Repression

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Denial

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Reaction Formation

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Projection

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Displacement

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Rationalization

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Sublimation

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Regression

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Introjection

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Identification

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Ego-Defense Mechanisms

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Compensation

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The Development of Personality

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First year: ORAL STAGE

Ages 1-3: ANAL STAGE

Ages 3-6: PHALLIC STAGE

Ages 6-12: LATENCY STAGE

Ages 12-60: GENITAL STAGE

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Perspective

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Psychosocial stages: Erikson’s basic psychological and social tasks to be mastered from infancy through old age

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Perspective

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Erikson’s theory of development holds that psychosexual and psychosocial growth take place together

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Perspective

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During each psychosocial stage, we face a specific crisis that must be resolved in order to move forward

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The Therapeutic Process

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The goal is to make the unconscious conscious and strengthen the ego so behavior is based on reality

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The Therapeutic Process

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The blank-screen approach fosters transference

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The Therapeutic Process
Achieving insight into problems and increasing awareness of ways to change helps clients gain control over their lives
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The Therapeutic Process
Pushing the client too rapidly or offering ill-timed interpretations will render the process ineffective
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Psychoanalytic Phenomena
Transference occurs when the client reacts to the therapist as he or she did to an earlier significant other
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Psychoanalytic Phenomena
Countertransference is the reaction of the therapist toward the client that may interfere with objectivity
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Psychoanalytic Phenomena
Resistance is anything that works against the progress of therapy and prevents the production of unconscious material
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Maintaining the Analytic Framework | Therapist uses a range of procedural and stylistic factors (e.g., analyst’s relative anonymity, consistency of meetings)
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Analysis of resistance | Therapist helps clients become aware of reasons for their resistance so they can deal with them
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Analysis of transference | Therapist uses this to elucidate client’s intrapsychic life
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Free Association | Client reports immediately without censoring any feelings or thoughts
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Interpretation | Therapist points out, explains, and teaches the meanings of whatever is revealed
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Psychoanalytic Techniques
Dream Analysis | Therapist uses the “royal road to the unconscious” to bring unconscious material to light
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Application to Group Counseling
Group work provides a rich framework for working through transference feelings
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Application to Group Counseling
The group becomes a microcosm of members’ everyday lives
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Application to Group Counseling
Projections onto the leader and members are clues to unresolved intrapsychic conflicts that can be identified, explored, and worked through in the group
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
An elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Places central importance on psychological changes associated with midlife
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Achieving individuation—the harmonious integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of personality—is an innate and primary goal
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
To become integrated, it is essential to accept our dark side, or shadow
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Dreams are aimed at integration and resolution; they contain messages from the collective unconscious, our source of creativity
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Jung’s Analytical Psychology
Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious are called archetypes (the persona, the anima and animus, and the shadow)
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Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
Object Relations | Emphasizes attachment and separation
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Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
Self Psychology | Emphasizes how we use interpersonal relationships (self objects) to develop our own sense of self
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Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
Relational Psychoanalysis | Emphasizes the interactive process between client and therapist
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Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy | Applies the principles of psychodynamic theory and therapy to treating selective disorders within 10 to 25 sessions
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Strengths from a Diversity Perspective
Erikson made significant contributions to how social and cultural factors affect people in many cultures over the life span
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Strengths from a Diversity Perspective
This approach promotes intensive psychotherapy for therapists, which gives them insight into their countertransference, including biases and prejudices
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Limitations from a Diversity Perspective
Based on upper- and middle-class values and may be cost prohibitive for many people
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Limitations from a Diversity Perspective
Cultural expectations may lead clients to want more direction and structure from the professional
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Limitations from a Diversity Perspective
More concerned with long-term personality reconstruction than with short-term problem solving
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Limitations from a Diversity Perspective
Fails to address social, cultural, and political factors that oppress clients
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Contributions of Psychoanalytic Approach. Helps therapists understand:
Human behavior from a psychosexual perspective, which can be a powerful framework when paired with the psychosocial perspective
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Contributions of Psychoanalytic Approach. Helps therapists understand:
That unfinished business can be worked through to provide a new ending to events that have restricted clients emotionally
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Contributions of Psychoanalytic Approach. Helps therapists understand:
The value of concepts such as unconscious motivation, the influence of early development, transference, countertransference, and resistance
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Contributions of Psychoanalytic Approach. Helps therapists understand:
How the overuse of ego defenses keep clients from functioning effectively
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
This approach may not be appropriate for all cultures or socioeconomic groups
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
Deterministic focus does not emphasize current maladaptive behaviors
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
Minimizes role of the environment
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
Requires subjective interpretation
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
Relies heavily on client fantasy
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Limitations of Psychoanalytic Approach
Lengthy treatment may not be practical or affordable for many clients

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