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Classical Psychoanalytic Theory Flashcards

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What is included in the topographical model?

Freud, 1900

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Unconscious
Preconscious
Conscious

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What is meant by the unconscious?

Freud, 1900

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This contains those thoughts, ideas,and feelings that are unacceptable

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What is meant by the preconscious?

Freud, 1900

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This contains acceptable thoughts, ideas, and feelings that are capable of becoming conscious

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What is meant by the conscious?

Freud, 1900

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This contains those thoughts, ideas, and feelings that are in awareness at any particular time

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What is included in the structural model?

Freud, 1923

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Id
Ego
Superego

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What is meant by the id?

Freud, 1923

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The unconscious part of the mind
Is pleasure seeking - functions on the pleasure principle
Similar to the unconscious

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What is meant by the ego?

Freud, 1923

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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

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What is meant by the superego?

Freud, 1923

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The irrationally moralistic aspect of the mind

Similar to the conscious

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What did Freud say about dreams? (1900)

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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

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What is the manifest content of a dream? (Freud, 1900)

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The actual dream experienced by the dreamer

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What is the latent content of the dream? (Freud, 1900)

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The true meaning of the dreams, the underlying meanings

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What is the citation for the topographical model?

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Freud, 1900

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What is the citation for dream content and analysis?

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Freud, 1900

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What is meant by the drive/conflict model? (Freud, 1905)

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The conflict that occurs in controlling the id in order to satisfy social demands
Conflict occurs between frustrated wishes and social norms

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What are the 5 stages in psychosexual development? (Freud, 1905)

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
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What is the purpose of the psychosexual stages of development?

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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

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What causes pathology (related to psychosexual stages)? (Freud, 1905)

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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

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What is the citation for the psychosexual stages of development?

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Freud, 1905

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What is the citation for the structural model?

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Freud, 1923

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What is the superego divided into? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)

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Conscience - internalization of the punishments and warnings

Ego ideal - based on the rewards and positive models that person has encountered

21
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What is compromise formation? (Freud, 1923)

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Adequate satisfaction of each part of the structural model

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How does pathology occur (related to compromise formation)? (Freud, 1923)

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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

23
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What is the citation for compromise formation?

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Freud, 1923

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What are defense mechanisms? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)

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Ways in which the ego blocks impulses or distorts threats into more acceptable forms

25
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What does the defensive system serve to do? (Auld and Hyman, 1991)

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Express the infantile wish
Minimize the anxiety stirred by the wish
Maintain repression - necessary if anxiety is to be held in check

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What is ego-dystonic? (Freud, 1914)

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Thoughts and behaviors that are in conflict with the needs and goals of the ego
Conflict with the person’s ideal self-image

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What is transference? (Freud, 1912)

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Client’s response to the therapist
Positive - attachment; represents libidinal strivings of the client
Negative - inappropriate, angry feelings towards the therapist

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What is countertransference? (Freud, 1912)

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Feelings of the therapist towards the client

29
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What is the citation for transference and countertransference?

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Freud, 1912

30
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What are the techniques in psychoanalytic treatment?

Freud, 1937

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Free association
Confrontation
Clarification
Interpretation
Working through
31
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What is meant by free association? (Freud, 1937)

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Client shares thoughts, random words, and anything else that comes to mind, regardless of how coherent or appropriate

32
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What is meant by confrontation? (Freud, 1937)

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Presenting to the client what has become preconscious

Calling attention to an action or utterance

33
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What is meant by clarification? (Freud, 1937)

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Description of the basis on which the therapist perceives the operation of the unconscious process

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What is meant by interpretation? (Freud, 1937)

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Making what was unconscious, conscious

Labeling of a wish-defense complex in any of its aspects or layers

35
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What is meant by working through? (Freud, 1937)

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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

36
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What is the citation for psychoanalytic techniques?

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Freud, 1937

37
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What are the curative factors of psychoanalytic theory?

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Resolution of conflict - undo repression and make the UCS, CS
Pleasure principle giving way to the reality principle

38
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What is the citation for the curative factors of psychoanalytic theory?

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Freud, 1937

39
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What are the goals of psychoanalytic theory? (Freud, 1923)

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Strengthen the ego
Finding more adaptive ways of coping
Use more mature defenses
Make unconscious, conscious
Save/consevre mental energy
40
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What is the citation for goals of psychoanalytic theory?

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Freud, 1923

41
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What is ego strength? (Hartmann, 1939)

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Capacity to acknowledge reality, even when unpleasant, without resorting to primitive defenses

42
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What are the major components of ego psychology? (Freud, 1936)

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Adaptation
Reality testing
Defenses

43
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What is included in the functions of the ego? (Freud, 1936)

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Impulse control
Judgment
Affect regulation
Reality testing
Defenses
44
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How does the ego develop? (Freud, 1936)

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Develops out of frustration
Must learn to tolerate frustration and delay gratification
Leads to development of defenses

45
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How does pathology develop (regarding ego psychology)? (Freud, 1936)

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Results from aberrant ego development
Primitive and rigid defenses develop
Superego is harsh
Poor ego functioning

46
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What techniques are included in ego psychology? (Freud, 1936)

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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

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