Chapter2 Flashcards
Basic principles psychoanalytic perspective
- unconsciousness
- awareness
- defenses
- ambivalence
- therapeutic relationship
- understanding
Basic concepts psychoanalytic therapy
Unconscious
Fantasy
Primary + secondary processes
Defenses
Transference
One-vs two-person psychologies
Examples of defenses
- intellectualisation
- projection
- reaction formation
- splitting
Defenses
Function to avoid emotional pain by pushing thoughts, wishes, feelings, fantasies out of awareness
Intellectualization
Talking about something threatening while keeping up an emotional distance to it
Projection
Attributing a threatening feeling or motive one is experiencing to another person
Reaction formation
Denying a threatening feeling + claiming to feel the opposite
Splitting
When one is unable to integrate ambivalent feelings about a person into one‘s view, 2 separate representations of the person form
-> can make stable relationships more difficult to maintain
Transference
Transferring template of significant figure from one‘s childhood onto another person
One-person psychology
Idea that it is possible to understand clients defense processes without consideration for therapist own ongoing contributions to the interaction
Two person psychology
Idea that assumes that both the therapist + client contribute to everything that takes place in a therapeutic relationship
Reasons for the declining influence of psychoanalysis
- increasing biologising of psychiatry
- rise of CBT + emphasis on evidence-based treatment
- arrogance of psychoanalysts being regarded negatively in the public
- psychoanalysts not being receptive to valid criticism
Object relations theory
Internal objects/representations shape how people choose relationships to create + how they shape them based on perceptions and actions of others
Attachment theory
Idea that all humans have innate tendency to develop strong affectional bonds and that threats to these bonds result in psychopathology
Internal working models
Process of developing internal representations of relationships with others that shape our ongoing experience + actions