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Libidinal organization is stages of our development characterized by patterns of sexual (and sensual) instinct centred on specific _______________

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Erotogenic zones

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What is the difference between erotogenic zone and erogenous zone

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Erotogenic = originating in sensual and sexual development 
Erogenous = giving rise to arousal and pleasure in a sexually mature individual
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Fixation occurs why?

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Because the needs corresponding to a stage are consistently frustrated (under gratified) or are satisfied too easily or too often (overgratied)

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The oral stage (birth-18mo) focus on gratification from

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Mouth and lips

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The early oral stage is called

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Incorporative

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The later oral stage is called _____ for it’s concerned with _____

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Sadistic

Bitting

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Over/under satisfaction in the oral stage will create what two characters

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Oral incorporative character

Oral sadistic character

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What is the oral incorporative character

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Engages in an abundance of oral activities (smoking, eating) and symbolically equivalent activities (collecting things or information)

Person who “swallow” anything he/she is told - gullible

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What is the oral sadistic character?

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Person who is verbally abusive and uses biting sarcasm

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The big event during the anal stage (18 mo - 3/4 yrs) is toilet training which is the first time that….

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Many kids’ external constrains are systematically imposed on satisfaction of internal urges

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Parents who emphasize punishment, ridicule and shame for failure during the anal stage will create two types of characters

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Anal expulsive: messy, cruel, destructive but also generous and creative

Anal-retentive character: a stingy perfectionist who may experience problems with constipation & orbstinte, neat and orderly

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In the Phallic stage (3/4 - 6/7 yrs) the awakening sexual desires are initially _______ and then libido shifts towards ________

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Autoerotic

Opposite-sex parent where child can become hostile towards

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During which stage is the sexual impulse suppressed ?

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Latent stage (6/7 yrs until puberty)

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When does the resurgence of the sex drive happen and focus on pleasure in sexual inter course ?

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Genital stage (begin at puberty)

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What are the 3 aspects of the dynamic mind ?

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Conscious mind, preconscious, unconscious

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What is the conscious mind

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All mental elements in awareness at any time

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What is the preconscious mind

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Elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty

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What is the unconscious mind

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State in which ideas are formed before being made conscious

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Where are most of our behaviours formed?

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The unconscious

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What are the 3 psychic forces of the mind

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Id/It, Ego, Superego

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What psychic force of the mind translates the organisms need into motivational forces or wishes

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Id

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What is the definition of Id

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A psychic representative of biology

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The ego relates the _____ to ____ by means of its consciousness/awareness

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organism to reality

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Around 1 year old, some of the Id becomes the ____

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“Ego” (one’s awareness or consciousness)

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As the Ego tries to keep the Id happy it meets with obstacles in the world. This record of things to avoid and strategies to cope becomes the ____
Superego
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The superego communicates its requirements to the ____ with feelings like _______
Ego | Shame, pride, guilt
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A healthy person is dominated by the ____
Ego ( a strong awareness)
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A pleasure-seeking person is dominated by the ___
Id
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A guilt-ridden or inferior-feeling person is dominated by the ____
Super-ego (dominated by views of society/authority)
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What is dream work
mental processes that convert unconscious (latent) wishes and needs into disguised images of the manifest dream
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What is manifest content in dream work
What the dream appears to be about to the dreamer (characters of the play)
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What is latent content in dream work
Dream's true meaning that is disguised or distorted by dream work (the true meaning of the conflict between the characters)
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what are 3 components of the dream work that are always inter related?
condensation (static), visual representation (dynamic), displacement (interactive)
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WHat is the manifest content of a dream that is a compressed version of many related and intertwined elements?
Condensation (static)
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What is visual representation
the dreamer creates concrete pictures to represent abstract thoughts
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What is displacement
Replacing a latent element by shifting emphasis to a remote and unimportant idea in a manifest element
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According to Freud, what is the basis of all subsequent feelings of anxiety?
the feeling of helplessness following birth
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What is realistic anxiety?
Basic fear from the physical world
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What is moral anxiety?
Fear of punishment from the internalized social world of the Superego
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What is neurotic anxiety
fear that one will be punished externally for impulsive actions
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What is the easiest form of anxiety to reduce? (healthiest anxiety)
Realistic anxiety
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Individuals usually feel overwhelmed and with no control, with which type of anxiety?
Neurotic anxiety
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What are the 9 ego defense mechanisms?
Denial, repression, displacement, projection, rationalization, intellectualization, reaction formation, sublimation, regression
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Refusing to recognize objective events in conscious awareness is what defense mechanism
denial
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Being unable to remember or reflect on past events or impulses = what defense mechanism
repression
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Redirecting distress from original target to someone/something else that is safe = what defense mechanism
displacement
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Choosing to see one's own faults in the other = what defense mechanism?
projection
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what is rationalization
making excuses by distorting the threatening facts
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What is intellectualization
Detaching emotion from a taxing experience by analyzing it
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What is reaction formation
Believing the opposite - transforming unacceptable thoughts or urges into their exact opposite
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What is sublimation
Channeling unnaceptable impulses into positive behaviour or artistic forms of expression
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What is regression
During a time of stress, reverting back to an earlier stage of development when life was simpler
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To treat neurosis, Freud moves from hypnosis to dream analysis and eventually to ____
Free association
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The aim of therapy is to achieve ________
insight and/or catharsis
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What is catharsis
Emotional relief that comes about when a person is able to ponder pathogenic ideas consciously
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What 5 factors influence the therapeutic process
Resistance and working through, transference, counter-transference, transference relationship, parapraxes
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What are some examples of parapraxes (clues of the unconscious/repressed conflicts)
Slip of the tongue, obvious mistakes, forgetfulness, erros in writing and speaking
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Through the recreation of the child-parent dynamics with the analyst, an opportunity for ____ becomes possible
Re-parenting
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Freud saw _____ as the main vehicle for healing
Transference neurosis
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What is the phenomenon that can occur during therapy where the therapist becomes emotionally involved with patient
COunter transference
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What is transference
phenomenon where patient responds to therapist as if he/she was important person in patients life
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What is resistance?
Patient's unwillingness to ponder and report anxiety producing thoughts duing the therapeutic process
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The analysis counteracts the resistance by
working through it: talking, examining, re-examining ways in which the patient resists treatment by unconsciously trying to obstruct or divert the analysis
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What is eros?
llife insticts that contain libidinal psychic energy
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what is thanatos
the "death instinct" or rather a desire to return to a state of non-struggle

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