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Dynamic psychopathology Flashcards

1
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Who described the unconscious as composed of both the collective unconscious and personal unconscious?

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Carl Gustav Jung

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What is the personal unconscious?

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Unique to individual

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What is collective unconscious?

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Universal, common to mankind and contains archetypes that include anima, animus, shadow or self and hero

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What is sublimation?

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Socially unacceptable impulses are transformed into acceptable forms - mature defense mechanism

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5
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What does the superego result from?

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Internalisation of parental authority

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What is reaction formation?

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When a person feels the urge to do something and then actually does something that is effectively the opposite of what they really want

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7
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Examples of immature defence mechanisms

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Splitting 
Projection 
Projective identification 
Idealisation 
Denigration 
Introjection 
Passive aggression 
Turning against the self
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Neurotic defence mechanisms

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Repression 
Regression 
Denial 
Displacement 
Dissociation 
Isolation 
Reaction formation 
Intellectualisation
Rationalisation 
Externalisation 
Identification with the aggressor
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9
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Mature defence mechanisms

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Humour 
Anticipation 
Sublimation 
Altruism 
Suppression

SASHA

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Kleinian defences

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Splitting 
Introjection
Projective identification 
Denial 
Omipotence
Grandiosity
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11
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Which defence mechanism is commonly used by people with narcissistic personality disorder?

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Projection

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12
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What is projection?

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Refers to the tendency to attribute the origins of the undesirable impulses and feelings onto another person

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13
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What is the most primitive part of the personality?

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Id

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14
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What is Id governed by?

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Pleasure principle

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Is Id consciously or unconsciously motivated?

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Unconsciously, instinctive

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16
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What psychoanalytical technique was used by Freud to uncover the unconscious?

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Free association

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17
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Idealisation and denigration are products of which Kleinian process?

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Splitting

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18
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What does Freuds structural model include?

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the Id, Ego and Superego

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19
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What does Freud’s topographical model consist of?

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Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious

20
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What is displacement?

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Showing emotions at a target different than the one unconsciously intended

21
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What is projective identification?

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Unconscious interaction that occurs between 2 people - person A projects feeling onto person B then person B unconsciously alters behaviour in a way as if the projected idea was true

22
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What is the ‘repressive barrier’ to censor unacceptable wishes and desires maintained by?

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Preconscious system

23
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The superego is formed at which stage of psychosexual development?

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Latency

23
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The superego is formed at which stage of psychosexual development?

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Latency

24
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What age would you be in the latency stage?

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5/6-puberty

25
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What does object relations theory describe?

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How a growing baby develops relationships with others

26
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What is the difference between latent content and manifest content in dreams?

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Latent content - unconscious feelings that includes wishes and anxiety
Manifest content - recalled dream

Dream works involves conversion from latent to manifest content

27
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Who described the concept of introversion and extraversion?

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Carl Gustav Jung

28
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What are the 2 positions that Mary Klein made up?

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Paranoid-Schizoid

Depressive

29
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Which defence mechanisms are associated with paranoid-schizoid position?

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Splitting and projection

30
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Which conflict do you need to learn to cope with in paranoid-schizoid position?

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Ambivalence

31
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Who coined the term collective unconscious?

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Jung

32
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What does Id function by?

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Primary process thinking which denies the existence of rational boundaries - serves pleasure principle

33
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At which stage does the oedipal stage occur?

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Phallic

34
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What is condensation?

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Used in dream analysis
Process of several unconscious impulses being combined into a single image in the manifest dream content e.g. kids dad and nasty teacher merge into one in the dream

35
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What is repression?

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Where people unconsciously repress painful or disturbing memories

36
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Neo-Freudian people

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Alfred Adler
Karen Horney
Harry Stack Sullivan
Erich Fromm

37
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What is identification as a defence mechanism?

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A person changes himself to be like someone else who is admired

38
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What are some examples of pancultural representation of human experience?

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MOther 
Child 
Hero 
Self 
Shadow
Anima
Animus
39
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What is anima?

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Unconscious feminine aspects of male

40
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What is animus?

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Unconscious masculine aspects of female

41
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What is persona?

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Outer concealed aspect of oneself

42
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What is the most mature level of anxiety?

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Superego anxiety

43
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What is superego anxiety?

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Guilt feelings about not living up to internalised standards of moral behaviour derived from parents

44
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When is superego anxiety seen?

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After resolution of oedipal conflict

45
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What is shadow?

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Unacknowledged aspects of oneself that includes both creative impulses and destructive urges

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