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freud Flashcards

1
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what is hysteria?

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a condition of emotional distress accompanied by physical symptoms with no organic origin

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what are 3 symptoms of hysteria?

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no pain, belief body part is paralysed, memory loss

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3
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what was hysteria dismissed as?

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malingering/attention seeking

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4
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what did charcot propose for hysteria?

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there is a psychological factor causing hysteria

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what was charcot’s theory for hysteria?

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  • patients had an accident
  • accident was not severe enough for neurological damage
  • accident causes ideas
  • ideas cause symptoms of hysteria
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6
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what does charcot propose as the psychological cause of hysteria?

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mental representations

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7
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how are ideas linked to consciousness?

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ideas are dissociated from consciousness

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what 2 things did freud take from charcot’s theory?

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  • physical illness has a psychological origin
  • hysteria is a unitary disease with a single cause
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9
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what does schopenhauer say humans are driven by?

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irrational instincts and ideas

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what does schopenhauer say humans refuse to acknowledge?

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their true nature as they are driven by the will

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what does schopenhauer say is the ultimate goal of human behaviour?

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sex

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12
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what does schopenhauer say about the will?

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it wants to be expressed more, individuals are representations of the will

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13
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who was Anna O?

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Breuer’s hysteria patient

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14
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what symptoms of hysteria did anna o have?

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dual personality, paralysis, hallucinations

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what was breuer’s treatment for anna o?

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asked her to recall first encounters of symptoms, symptoms disappeared when traced to origin

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16
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what did anna o call breuer’s treatment?

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‘talking cure’

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17
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what is breuer’s theory for treating hysteria?

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bring repressed traumatic events to the conscious mind and treat them rationally

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18
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what is abreaction?

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reliving past traumatic experiences

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19
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when did psychoanalysis start?

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when breuer and frued published anna o’s experience in 1895?

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what does breuer say is the cause of hysteria?

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traumatic events that are not allowed adequate expression, they are repressed

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21
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how did freud treat hysteria?

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free association

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22
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when did freud find repression acting during free association?

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when patients said they knew nothing more

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23
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what did freud say about resistance?

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it is natural but must be defeated

24
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what was freud’s theory in 1896?

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seduction from father causes hysteria

25
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what did freud say in 1897?

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he was wrong about seduction theory

26
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what was freud’s oedipus complex?

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fall in love with mother and become jealous of father

27
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what did freud say about people’s experience of oedipus complex?

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it is a universal experience

28
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what did freud say is responsible for suffering?

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mental life, not physical life

29
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what happened in the case of dora?

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freud declared dora’s hysteria was due to her being disgusted by Mr K, she didnt finish therapy, which freud blamed on transference

30
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what are dreams described as?

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disguised expression of desire

31
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what happens when we decipher dreams?

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find hidden meaning and recover repressed material

32
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how are dreams and hysteria related?

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they have the same origin

33
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what are parapraxes?

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slips of the tongue, small accidents

34
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what is the theory behind parapraxes?

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they are unconsciously motivated, everything happens for a reason

35
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how does psychoanalysis view dreams and parapraxes?

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they are motivated by sexual and aggressive wishes, nothing is as it seems

36
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what is the id?

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how we want to behave, contains all drives, libido

37
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what is the superego?

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how we should behave, conscience

38
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what is the ego?

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mediates ego and id, deals with anxiety, has several defence mechanisms

39
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what is objective anxiety?

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impending danger e.g. physical attack

40
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what is neurotic anxiety?

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not in control

41
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what is moral anxiety?

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uncertainty about own behaviour

42
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what are the ego’s 6 defence mechanisms?

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repression, sublimation, projection, identification, rationalisation, reaction formation

43
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what is repression?

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disguise ideas enough not to cause anxiety (e.g. dreams, humour)

44
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what is sublimation?

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indirect expression of sexual urges e.g. poetry, art

45
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what is projection?

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attribute anxiety provoking thought to someone/something else

46
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what is identification?

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if you haven’t lived up to expectations, identify with someone who did e.g. support football team

47
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what is rationalisation?

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give rational and logical reason, rather than true reason

48
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what is reaction formation?

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replace unwanted impulse with its opposite, in an exaggerated way

49
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what are freud’s 5 psychosexual stages?

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

50
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what happens in the oral stage?

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0-1 years, dependent & gullible, then sarcastic & aggressive

51
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what happens in the anal stage?

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1-2 years, messy & wasteful, then orderly

52
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what happens in the phallic stage?

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3-5 years, male and female oedipus complexes, male castration anxiety, female penis envy, development of superego

53
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what happens in the latency stage?

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6-puberty, no sexual activity

54
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what happens in the genital stage?

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puberty+, sexual desires expressed

55
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how many cases of psychoanalysis did freud have published?

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6, all failed

56
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what was the result of freud’s treatment of wolf-man?

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wolfman didnt consider himself cured, he thought freud’s analysis was far-fetched

57
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how was eysenck viewed by psychoanalysts?

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he was hostile towards psychoanalysis

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