Classical Psychoanalytic Theory Flashcards
What is included in the topographical model?
Freud, 1900
Unconscious
Preconscious
Conscious
What is meant by the unconscious?
Freud, 1900
This contains those thoughts, ideas,and feelings that are unacceptable
What is meant by the preconscious?
Freud, 1900
This contains acceptable thoughts, ideas, and feelings that are capable of becoming conscious
What is meant by the conscious?
Freud, 1900
This contains those thoughts, ideas, and feelings that are in awareness at any particular time
What is included in the structural model?
Freud, 1923
Id
Ego
Superego
What is meant by the id?
Freud, 1923
The unconscious part of the mind
Is pleasure seeking - functions on the pleasure principle
Similar to the unconscious
What is meant by the ego?
Freud, 1923
The rational mediator between the id and the superego
Hopes to find compromise between the wishes of the id and the strict demands of the superego
Similar to the preconscious
What is meant by the superego?
Freud, 1923
The irrationally moralistic aspect of the mind
Similar to the conscious
What did Freud say about dreams? (1900)
They are the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes
Exist on the border of unconscious and preconscious
The meaning of the dreams are determined by the associations of the dreamer
What is the manifest content of a dream? (Freud, 1900)
The actual dream experienced by the dreamer
What is the latent content of the dream? (Freud, 1900)
The true meaning of the dreams, the underlying meanings
What is the citation for the topographical model?
Freud, 1900
What is the citation for dream content and analysis?
Freud, 1900
What is meant by the drive/conflict model? (Freud, 1905)
The conflict that occurs in controlling the id in order to satisfy social demands
Conflict occurs between frustrated wishes and social norms
What are the 5 stages in psychosexual development? (Freud, 1905)
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
What is the purpose of the psychosexual stages of development?
For the child to learn to delay gratification
Occurs through vacillating between sufficient gratification and developmentally appropriate frustration
To replace/relinquish the pleasure principle with the reality principle
What causes pathology (related to psychosexual stages)? (Freud, 1905)
Being overly frustrated or overly gratified at specific stages results in fixation
Oral - depressed, dependent, addictions
Anal - obsessional; issues of orderliness, neatness, perfectionism, control
Phallic - hysterical; women become whores, men become aggressive
Latency - sexual unfullfillment
What is the citation for the psychosexual stages of development?
Freud, 1905
What is the citation for the structural model?
Freud, 1923
What is the superego divided into? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)
Conscience - internalization of the punishments and warnings
Ego ideal - based on the rewards and positive models that person has encountered
What is compromise formation? (Freud, 1923)
Adequate satisfaction of each part of the structural model
How does pathology occur (related to compromise formation)? (Freud, 1923)
Desires of the id become overwhelming and the ego defenses fails
Occurs when a compromise cannot be reached
Repressed material surfaces into the conscious, disguised as symptoms
What is the citation for compromise formation?
Freud, 1923
What are defense mechanisms? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)
Ways in which the ego blocks impulses or distorts threats into more acceptable forms
What does the defensive system serve to do? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)
Express the infantile wish
Minimize the anxiety stirred by the wish
Maintain repression - necessary if anxiety is to be held in check
What is ego-dystonic? (Freud, 1914)
Thoughts and behaviors that are in conflict with the needs and goals of the ego
Conflict with the person’s ideal self-image
What is transference? (Freud, 1912)
Client’s response to the therapist
Positive - attachment; represents libidinal strivings of the client
Negative - inappropriate, angry feelings towards the therapist
What is countertransference? (Freud, 1912)
Feelings of the therapist towards the client
What is the citation for transference and countertransference?
Freud, 1912
What are the techniques in psychoanalytic treatment?
Freud, 1937
Free association Confrontation Clarification Interpretation Working through
What is meant by free association? (Freud, 1937)
Client shares thoughts, random words, and anything else that comes to mind, regardless of how coherent or appropriate
What is meant by confrontation? (Freud, 1937)
Presenting to the client what has become preconscious
Calling attention to an action or utterance
What is meant by clarification? (Freud, 1937)
Description of the basis on which the therapist perceives the operation of the unconscious process
What is meant by interpretation? (Freud, 1937)
Making what was unconscious, conscious
Labeling of a wish-defense complex in any of its aspects or layers
What is meant by working through? (Freud, 1937)
Interpretation of each aspect of a segment of the infantile neurosis
Client comes to recognize the impact of the neurotic conflict in many areas of life and in relationships with other people
What is the citation for psychoanalytic techniques?
Freud, 1937
What are the curative factors of psychoanalytic theory?
Resolution of conflict - undo repression and make the UCS, CS
Pleasure principle giving way to the reality principle
What is the citation for the curative factors of psychoanalytic theory?
Freud, 1937
What are the goals of psychoanalytic theory? (Freud, 1923)
Strengthen the ego Finding more adaptive ways of coping Use more mature defenses Make unconscious, conscious Save/consevre mental energy
What is the citation for goals of psychoanalytic theory?
Freud, 1923
What is ego strength? (Hartmann, 1939)
Capacity to acknowledge reality, even when unpleasant, without resorting to primitive defenses
What are the major components of ego psychology? (Freud, 1936)
Adaptation
Reality testing
Defenses
What is included in the functions of the ego? (Freud, 1936)
Impulse control Judgment Affect regulation Reality testing Defenses
How does the ego develop? (Freud, 1936)
Develops out of frustration
Must learn to tolerate frustration and delay gratification
Leads to development of defenses
How does pathology develop (regarding ego psychology)? (Freud, 1936)
Results from aberrant ego development
Primitive and rigid defenses develop
Superego is harsh
Poor ego functioning
What techniques are included in ego psychology? (Freud, 1936)
Therapist acts as the observing ego - interpreting defenses
Interpret superego functioning
Client identifies with the therapist and is able to develop their own observing ego
