Ch 13 (Exam 2) Flashcards
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psychoanalysis
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- school that emphasizes unconscious motivation
- subject matter is psychopathology
- primary method is clinical observation
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Franz Mesmer
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- his use of magnetic therapy induced trances in patients
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Martin Charcot and Pierre Janet
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- their pioneering treatment of hysteria with hypnosis shifted psychiatry from physical to mental viewpoint
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catharsis
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- conscious expression of repressed ideas brings emotional release
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Sigmund Freud
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- founder of psychoanalysis
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Josef Breuer
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- his case report on Anna O played critical role in development of psychoanalysis
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transference
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- patient develops feelings for therapist similar feelings for significant other
- first reported by Josef Breuer
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free association
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- psychotherapeutic technique in which patient says whatever comes to mind
- Sigmund Freud
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seduction theory
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- cause of all neuroses is sexual abuse during childhood
- proposed and later discarded by Sigmund Freud
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repression
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- unacceptable ideas are forced from conscious level and left to operate at unconscious level
- key concept in psychoanalysis
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libido
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- collective psychic energy associated with life instinct
- Freud
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ID
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- instinctual aspect of personality operating at unconscious level
- Freud
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Ego
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- rational aspect of personality responsible for controlling id
- Freud
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Superego
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- moral aspect of personality derived from internalizing values of others
- Freud
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defense mechanisms
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- ways that ego alters reality at unconscious level to reduce anxiety
- Freud
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Oedipus complex
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- boys unconsciously desire to sexually possess mother and destroy father
- Freud
