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freud Flashcards

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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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what was hysteria dismissed as?

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malingering/attention seeking

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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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what does charcot propose as the psychological cause of hysteria?

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mental representations

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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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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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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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who was Anna O?

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Breuer’s hysteria patient

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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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what did anna o call breuer’s treatment?

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‘talking cure’

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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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what is abreaction?

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reliving past traumatic experiences

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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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how did freud treat hysteria?

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free association

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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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what did freud say about resistance?

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it is natural but must be defeated

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what was freud’s theory in 1896?

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seduction from father causes hysteria

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what did freud say in 1897?
he was wrong about seduction theory
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what was freud's oedipus complex?
fall in love with mother and become jealous of father
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what did freud say about people's experience of oedipus complex?
it is a universal experience
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what did freud say is responsible for suffering?
mental life, not physical life
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what happened in the case of dora?
freud declared dora's hysteria was due to her being disgusted by Mr K, she didnt finish therapy, which freud blamed on transference
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what are dreams described as?
disguised expression of desire
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what happens when we decipher dreams?
find hidden meaning and recover repressed material
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how are dreams and hysteria related?
they have the same origin
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what are parapraxes?
slips of the tongue, small accidents
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what is the theory behind parapraxes?
they are unconsciously motivated, everything happens for a reason
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how does psychoanalysis view dreams and parapraxes?
they are motivated by sexual and aggressive wishes, nothing is as it seems
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what is the id?
how we want to behave, contains all drives, libido
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what is the superego?
how we should behave, conscience
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what is the ego?
mediates ego and id, deals with anxiety, has several defence mechanisms
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what is objective anxiety?
impending danger e.g. physical attack
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what is neurotic anxiety?
not in control
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what is moral anxiety?
uncertainty about own behaviour
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what are the ego's 6 defence mechanisms?
repression, sublimation, projection, identification, rationalisation, reaction formation
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what is repression?
disguise ideas enough not to cause anxiety (e.g. dreams, humour)
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what is sublimation?
indirect expression of sexual urges e.g. poetry, art
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what is projection?
attribute anxiety provoking thought to someone/something else
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what is identification?
if you haven't lived up to expectations, identify with someone who did e.g. support football team
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what is rationalisation?
give rational and logical reason, rather than true reason
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what is reaction formation?
replace unwanted impulse with its opposite, in an exaggerated way
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what are freud's 5 psychosexual stages?
oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
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what happens in the oral stage?
0-1 years, dependent & gullible, then sarcastic & aggressive
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what happens in the anal stage?
1-2 years, messy & wasteful, then orderly
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what happens in the phallic stage?
3-5 years, male and female oedipus complexes, male castration anxiety, female penis envy, development of superego
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what happens in the latency stage?
6-puberty, no sexual activity
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what happens in the genital stage?
puberty+, sexual desires expressed
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how many cases of psychoanalysis did freud have published?
6, all failed
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what was the result of freud's treatment of wolf-man?
wolfman didnt consider himself cured, he thought freud's analysis was far-fetched
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how was eysenck viewed by psychoanalysts?
he was hostile towards psychoanalysis

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