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Approaches: Psychodynamic Flashcards

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1
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Suggested the mind is made up of three parts

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Freud

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Mind is made up of

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Conscious
Pre-conscious
Unconscious

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Conscious

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What we are aware of

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Pre-conscious

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Thoughts we may become aware of through dreams and ‘slip of the tongue’

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Unconscious

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A vast storehouse of biological drives and instincts that influence behaviour
Contains disturbing memories that have been repressed

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What is personality described as?

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Tripartite - composed of 3 parts

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Personality

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ID
Ego
Superego

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ID

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Primitive part of personality
Operates on pleasure principle
Demands instant gratification of needs

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Ego

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Operates on reality principle
Mediator between ID and superego
Role is to reduce conflict between ID and superego by employing defence mechanisms

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Defence mechanisms

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Unconscious strategies that reduce anxiety

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Types of defence mechanisms

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Repression
Denial
Displacement

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Repression

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Forcing a distressing memory out of the conscious mind

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Denial

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Refusing to acknowledge anxiety

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Displacement

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Transferring feelings from their true source of distressing emotion onto a substitute target

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Superego

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Operates on morality principle
Internalised sense of right and wrong
Punishes ego through guilt

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Define psychosexual stages

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Stages that determine adult personality

Each stage is marked by a different conflicts that the child must resolve to move onto the next

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Unresolved conflict

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Any conflicts unresolved leads to fixation where the child become stuck and behaviours associated with that stage through to adult life

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Sequence of stages

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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Oral

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0-1 years
FOP: mouth. Mothers breast object of desire
Conflict unresolved, consequence: smoking, biting nails

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Anal

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1-3yrs
FOP:anus. Child gains pleasure from withholding and eliminating poo
Conflict unresolved, consequence: 
anal retentive: perfectionist, obsessive
Anal expulsive: thoughtless, messy
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Phallic

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3-5 yrs
FOP: genital area
Child experiences opedius complex

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Latency

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Earlier conflicts are repressed

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Genital

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Puberty
Sexual desires become conscious
Conflict unresolved, consequence: difficulty forming heterosexual relationships

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Opedius complex

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Little boys develop incestuous feelings towards mother and murderous hatred towards father

Later, repress feelings for mother and identify with father, taking on his gender role

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Electra complex

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Girls experience penis envy

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