Exam 1_Objective Relations Flashcards
According to Klein, what is ego splitting?
You cannot maintain contradictory emotional experiences at the same time. You end up splitting someone into either all good or all bad.
Define Repression
Unconscious blocking out of awareness pain or embarrassment. “Automatic erasing of material”
Sigmund Freud believed the unconscious mind was superior at memory capacity (endless). You never truly forget anything, just stored.
However, might not ever be able to recover. Through projection, can get a glimpse.
Define Anxiety
The process of worrying.
Define Suppression
Deliberate conscious avoidance of info. Person consciously diverts attention from distress.
Define Sublimation
Channel aggression into other activities such as boxing, etc
Define Displacement
Placing your emotion onto someone else unrelated.
What is meant by “self-Objects?”
Source of the narcissistic feeling. Person uses another source to be their self-enhancing object.
What did Kohut mean by children need to be “mirrored?”
To have their talk and accomplishments praised, accepted, and acknowledged.
How are narcissists developed?
By failing to realize their true sense of worth. They idealize others. They exaggerate a sense of self-importance to hide a fragile sense of worth.
According to Kernberg, how do those with borderline personality disorders use ego splitting? What are the traits of a borderline?
Cannot tolerate being left alone. Relationships are psychological oxygen.
Explain Chodorow’s “reproduction of mothering” concept on how it creates the desire to have children.
Mother-daughter relationship instills daughter with desire to take on the mother role.
According to Mahler, what are the stages of individuation-separation?
Starts at 4th month of life and should end at age 3. However, might take a lifetime.
- Normal autism and normal symbiosis (Cannot perceive mother)
- Separation individualization (you treat yourself the same as others. You are one. But then you separate.)
- Consolidation (Remember strengths and weaknesses and the same time)
What stages cause the highest risk of developing a personality disorder?
Separation individualization.
At what stage is the foundation for intimacy-love developed?
Consolidation?
Explain idealization and devaluation.
Idealization: See all good in people. No bad.
Devaluation: See al bad in people. No good.
Ideal self= devalue others. Devalue self= idealize others.
