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Chapter 11 - Freudian psychoanalysis Flashcards

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Sigmund Freud

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studied medicine in Vienna and met Franz Brentano

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Franz Brentano

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promoted the act psychology

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act psychology

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distinguishing the subject of psychology from that of the natural sciences
- natural sciences study objects
- the fundamental unit of analysis of psychology is action

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intentionality

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referring to and adopting attitudes or beliefs towards an object

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Josef Breuer

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Freud’s mentor
- treated Bertha Pappenheim

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Bertha Pappenheim

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suffered from severe hysteria symptoms

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pathogenic ideas

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emotions whose cause situation is forgotten

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conversion

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the process where emotional distress is unconsciously transformed into physical symptoms

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cathartic method

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a therapy that involves expressing and releasing repressed emotions to relieve psychological distress
- developed by Breuer

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pressure technique

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patients lay on a couch with their eyes closed, asked to recall the earliest experiences of the symptoms. if the patients were not able to remember, Freud pressed his hand on their foreheads, which indeed helped patients remember repressed memories
- the first technique Freud experimented with

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free association technique

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Freud asked his patients to tell him whatever came to mind. to guide the associations in the direction of the memory he asked the patients specific questions

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overdetermination

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a symptom is not caused by a single factor, but by 2 or more interacting factors

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intrapsychic conflict

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a conscious part of the patient wants to face his problems and be healed, but another unconscious part fears the emotional pain of talking about the memories and tries to sabotage the process
- discovered by Freud

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seduction theory of hysteria

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all hysteria patients must have experienced some form of sexual abuse as a child
- instead of consciously remembering the experience, people unconsciously produce hysterical conversion symptoms

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manifest content of dreams

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the consciously experienced content of a dream

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latent content of dreams

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the hidden content of the dream, which originally inspired the dream but only emerges in consciousness through freee association

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dream work

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  • displacement
  • condensation
  • concrete representation
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displacement

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negative emotions transfer from latent content to the situation you dream about. in a way, a person is experiencing images as less disturhing than the thought that inspired them

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condensation

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2 or more latent thoughts sometimes condense into a single manifest image

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concrete representation

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manifest content usually represents latent ideas through concretely experienced sensations. dreams are experienced not only as thoughts, but also as images, soounds, feelings, etc

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primary process of thinking (unconscious)

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associated with dreaming and symptom formation

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secondary process of thinking (conscious)

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responsible for rational thinking

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wish-fulfulment hypothesis

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the latent content of every dream contains some kind of wish that drives the dream itself

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polymorphic perversity

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different stages in life in which one gets pleasure from different things

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the oral zone

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typical in very young children because they tend to put everything in their mouths in a manner to explore the world around them

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anal zone

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learning how to have toilet habits, how to control your body

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genital zone

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appears in puberty, where the person finds pleasure from another sensation

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fixation

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when a person has not overcome the conflict in one of the 3 phases
- they find ways to compensate when they grow older

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transference

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patients transferred traits of important people in their lives to Freud

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3 structures of the mind

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  • id
  • superego
  • ego
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id

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the body’s need for warmth, sensual satisfaction, and survival instincts

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superego

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our ideal projections of moral demands

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ego

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what the conflict between the id and superego forces mediated by

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repression

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occurs when an emotion is expressed in a different situation from the one in which is arrises

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projection

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attributing one’s own qualities to someone else

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denial

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happens when a person does not accept an event that has taken place

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intellectualisation

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approaching some impulses and emotionally charged memories directly but in an intellectual way

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rationalization

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aligning our behavior with out theoughts, by explaining our behavior

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identification

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this parent was the ideal of the superego and helped develop a moral requirement for limitations of the id (impulses)

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displacement

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take the emotion from the original output and transfer it in another situation

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castration complex

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when boys love their mother and they want her love, but there is another male in the house (the father), who is also loved by the mother, the boy sees him as a threat

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penis envy

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in a way the girls want to have a penis, but as they do not this creates a source of struggle

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Horney

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thought that castration complex and penis envy were complete nonsense

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Melanie Klein

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made an accurate analysis of relationships between children
- refined by Fairbairn and Winnicott

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object relations

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the first emotion is love for the mother, the mother-child relationship is what matters

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Erik Erikson

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worked with children and developed a model of psychosocial development and identity
- the most important things people have to discover about themselves

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Adler

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developed the inferiority complex

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inferiority complex

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happens when one is comparing oneself with others
- the feeling of inferiority comes from confronting oneself with someone superior

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Jung

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developed his own meta psychological model and thought about collective unconscious
- came up with the terms extraversion and intraversion

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collective unconscious

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segment of the deepest unconscious mind is genetically inherited and not shaped by personal experience

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Carl Rogers

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developed client-centered therapy
- believed that people were their own best experts

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Joseph Wolpe

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developed behavioral therapy that emphasised symptom relief

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Aaron Beck

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developed cognitive therapy

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cognitive therapy

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seeks to identify and correct incorrect and irrational thoughts

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