Ch 4: Neo Analytic & Ego Aspects of Personality Flashcards

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Most thoughts, feelings, motives, defenses, and desires are:

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Unconscious

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Personality growth involves moving from an immature state to:

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A mature, independent state.

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Commonalities between Anna Freud & Heinz Hartman

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Both focused more on the Ego and saw it as more independent of the Id and Superego

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Jung - the conscious ego develops:

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Around age 4 and encompasses a sense of Self

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Jung - stuff related to you and your life/offers balance

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The Personal Unconscious

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Jung - Collective Unconscious

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Evolutionary past, tendencies between certain behaviours and thoughts, shared knowledge, etc.

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Jung - Meaningful coincidences (not causally linked)

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Synchronicity

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The Persona

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The self you show to others. the “Ideal Self”

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The Shadow

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Dark side of you/your ego, parts you don’t want others to see

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The Anima/Animus

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the masculine (animus) and feminine (anima) side manifesting one over the other; striving for balance

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The Self

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All-Knowing self, repository of knowledge from your ancestors, higher awareness of yourself and your surroundings

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Mother

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Nurturing and fertile, “mother earth”

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Hero & Demon

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Good and evil, our inner conflict

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Complexes (modern day idea of Obsession)

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A group of emotionally charged feelings related to a particular theme

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The 2 Attitudes of the Ego

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Extraversion - energized by contact with others, outwardly focused libidinal energy
Introversion - energy drained around others, libidinal energy focused inward

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4 Functions of the Ego

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Thinking (rational) - problem solver
Feeling (rational) - emotion based
Intuition (irrational) - don’t have to think much about it
Sensation (irrational) - based on sight, hearing, touch, etc.

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Myers-Briggs - 2 dimensions of Ego

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Judging - plan, organized, structured
Perceiving - more spontaneous, impulsive

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What is Individuation?

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Changing the centre of your psychological universe from the Ego to the Integrated self

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Adler - Masculine Protest

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An attempt to be competent and independent, to gain power from abilities, skills, and knowledge

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Adler - Compensation

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A way to overcome the sense of feeling powerless

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Adler - Strive for Superiority

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The drive to become better than we were before, to be competent

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Adler - Perfect Striving

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Meeting fictional goals - imagined future achievements, the ideal of a goal; fictional goal is to strive for the ultimate goal

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Adler - The 3 Social issues to be addressed

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  1. Occupational Tasks
  2. Societal Tasks
  3. Love Tasks
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Adler - Inferiority & Superiority Complexes

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Overwhelmed by the sense of superiority which leads to inferiority

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Birth Order - First Born struggles

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Star of the show, lots of parental interactions, likes being in charge, high achievers, follows the status quo

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Birth Order - Second Born struggles

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Might get caught up in the power struggle, possibly seek out their own direction, leading the charge

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Birth Order - Last Born struggles

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Struggles the most with power, more likely to get an inferiority complex, siblings aren’t around as much

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Personality Type: Ruling-Dominant

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Person is aggressive, domineering, low in social interest, high in activity, and self-focus

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Personality Type: Getting-Leaning

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Person takes from others and is somewhat passive, low in social interest and activity, self-focus, and dependent

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Personality Type: Avoiding

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Person runs away from problems, very low social interest and low activity, self-focus

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Personality Type: Socially Useful

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Person meets problems realistically, is cooperative and caring, high social interest, high activity, other-focused, striving for superiority

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White - what is a basic ego function?

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Bonding with others

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White - 2 Forms of Motivation

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  1. Effectance Motivation - motivation as a desire to be effective
  2. Competence Motivation - the motivation to do better
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White - 2 Aspects of Adaptation

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  1. Ego Control - how you adapt to the environment
  2. Ego Resilience - the degree to which one can modify impulse restraint across situations
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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Real Self

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The inner core of personality, the self you are behind closed doors

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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Despised Self

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Perceptions of interiority and inadequacies

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Horney - Aspects of the Self: The Ideal Self

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What one hopes to be; what you strive to be like

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What is Basic Anxiety?

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The fear of being alone, helpless, and insecure that stems from negative experiences in childhood.

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Basic Anxiety - Moving Toward

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Connecting with others, being passive or compliant, over identification with the despised self, neurotic need to please others

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Basic Anxiety - Moving Against

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Using exploitation and aggression to gain control, over identification with the ideal self, wanting to be the best

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Basic Anxiety - Moving Away

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Withdrawal and avoiding others and conflict to avoid getting hurt in relationships, wanting to overcome the despised self, fear of never achieving the ideal self

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What is the Development of a Neurotic Trend

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Focusing on a single coping strategy that dominates one’s personality

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Horney - Males ____ women’s ability to ____

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envied, produce life

43
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How did Horney challenge the idea of Penis Envy?

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That females didn’t envy the penis, but they did envy the power and control men had due to the expectations of women to be submissive

44
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Mahler - Symbiosis

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A psychological bonding

45
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Mahler - Separation-Individualism

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Mothers need to encourage independence in their children

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Mahler - What are the two pressures creating conflict?

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  1. A wish to be taken care of by the mother and be close to her
  2. A fear of being overwhelmed by closeness and a desire to be independent
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Mahler - Symbiotic Psychotic Children

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Unable to form an independent sense of self

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Mahler - Separation Anxiety

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Experiencing a sense of rejection from the mother

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Mahler - Normal Symbiotic Children

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Children who develop Independence and Empathy

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Mahler - Object Integration

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Seeing others as Multidimensional

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Mahler - Split Object Image

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Thinking of others in polarized ways (either Good or Bad, Friendly or Hurtful)

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Mahler - Basic Fault

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A lack of connection between the child and mother that impacts later adult relationships (difficulty trusting others, reading relationships correctly, unable to form connections)

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Kohut - Narcissism

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A pattern of self-centred needs that must be satisfied through others

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Kohut - Self-object

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Someone who helps you satisfy your needs

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Kohut - Mirroring

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Responding to the child’s needs

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Securely Attached Children…

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When you are in synchrony with your child

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Attachment Theory - Synchrony

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Matching behaviour to child’s actions and signals

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Ambivalent Insecure Attachment

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A child won’t want to go out and explore because they feel as though they might not be able to come back

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Avoidance Insecure Attachment

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Children can go and explore without expecting to come back home and receive the love of their parents

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Disorganized Attachment

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The child fears their parent; comes from abuse

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What are the Internal working models of self, others, and relationships?

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We have expectations of what other people are going to be like based on the relationships we formed with our parents.

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What are the alternative categories of attachment?

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  1. Secure - positive view of self and others
  2. Preoccupied - positive view of others, negative of self
  3. Dismissing - positive view of self, negative of others
  4. Fearful - negative view of both self and others
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Secure Attachments…

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People are happier, friendly, trusting, Interdependent, more committed

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Avoidant Attachments…

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People are less likely to accept their partners faults, more cynical, jealous, uncomfortable with intimacy, etc.

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Ambivalent Attachments…

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People are more likely to be obsessed with their partners and ex-partners, emotional highs and lows, need lots of reassurance, dependent on their partner

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Secure Attachments at Work

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View work more positively, less procrastination, less likely to fear failure, happier home-work life balance

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Avoidant Attachments at Work

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Tend to want to work a lot and alone, less socializing, work compulsively, feel nervous when not working

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Ambivalent Attachments at work

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Prefer to work with others, feel misunderstood and under appreciated, need for the approval of others, fear rejection, personal lives interfere with work lives

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Erikson - Ego Identity is…

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A conscious experience of the self that results from interactions with the social reality

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Erikson - Mastery is…

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Completing a stage of development in a desire to be competent

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Erikson - Each stage is characterized by _____

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A crisis, a period of potential growth but also vulnerable

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Erikson - Ego Strength

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Develops when you emerge from the crisis successfully

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Erikson - Infancy Crisis

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Trust vs Mistrust - ego strength of Hope

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Erikson - Early Childhood

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Autonomy vs Shame/Doubt - ego strength of Will

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Erikson - Preschool

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Initiative vs Guilt - ego strength of Purpose

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Erikson - School Age

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Industry vs Inferiority - ego strength of Competence

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Erikson - Adolescence

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Identity vs Role Confusion - ego strength of Fidelity
Foreclosure (a “ready made” identity) and Moratorium (finding out your own identity)

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Erikson - Young Adulthood

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Intimacy vs Isolation - ego strength of Love

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Erikson - Adulthood

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Generativity vs Stagnation - Ego strength of Care

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Erikson - Old Age

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Ego Integrity vs Despair - ego strength of Wisdom

81
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Modern Ego Theory - Functionalist Apprach

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What people want and why they want it