Chapter 7: Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapies Flashcards
Psychoanalysis
One-on-one treatment involving frank discussion of a client’s thoughts and feelings; reflect Freud’s ideas
Emphases of Psychoanalysis
Searching for relationships between a person’s developmental history and current problems
Blockages or dissociations in self-awareness as causes of psychological problems
Talking as an approach to treatment
Therapeutic Relationship as the talking cure
Topographical Model of the Mind
Continuum from unconscious, to preconscious, to conscious, fundamental to understanding Freud’s views of personality
Unconscious Forces
Id, Ego, Superego
Id
Primitive source of instinctual drives, especially sexual/sensual, and aggressive drives; seeks to discharge tension by engaging in sexual or aggressive impulses
Superego
Mental agency that incorporates norms from one’s parents, family, and culture, contains the ego ideal or how one would like to be; in conflict with the id
Ego
Referees the id and the superego; simulataneously recognizing and responding to external realities
Defense Mechanisms
Essentially unconsicous mental strategies or routines that the ego employs to ward off the anxiety produced by intrapsychic conflict
Denial
Avoiding awareness of aspects of external reality that are difficult to face
Projection
Perceiving and reacting to unacceptable inner impulses as though they were outside the self, typically in another person
Splitting
Compartmentalizing experiences of the self and others so that contradictions in behavior, thought, or affect are not recognized
Dissociation
Disrupting one’s sense of continuity in the areas of identity, memory, consciousness, or perception
Regression
Returning to an earlier phase of development or functioning
Identification
Internalizing the qualities of another person by becoming like him or her
Displacement
Shifting feeling associated with one idea, object, or person to another
Intellectualization
Using excessive and abstract ideation to avoid difficult feelings
Reaction Formation
Transforming an unacceptable impulse into its opposite
Suppression
Consciously deciding not to attend to a particular feeling, state or impulse
Humor
Finding the cominc and/or idonic elements in difficult situations
Sublimation
Transforming socially or internally unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable expression
Mature Defenses
Suppression, Humor & Sublimation
Transference
When the client unconsciously brings a maladaptive pattern of relating into therapy
Countertransference
When therapists’ reactions toward clients are based on the therapist’s personal history and conflicts; can impair progress of therapy if the therapist begins to distort the therapeutic interaction on the basis of his or her own conflicts and defenses
Psychic Determinism
Idea that memories, impressions, or experiences that occur together in a client’s mind are necesarily related not random; presuming that slips of the tongue and other unexpected verbal associations are psychologically meaningful
Resistance
Happens when the therapist and client get closer to a client’s core unconscious conflicts and emotions
Working Through
Working through transference reactions and resistance; fills in the details