GLOSSARY Flashcards
Adlerian safeguarding tendency whereby
one protects magnified feelings of self-esteem by
blaming others for one’s own failures.
accusation
Technique used by Jung to uncover
collective unconscious material. Patients are asked to
concentrate on an image until a series of fantasies are
produced.
active imagination
Tendency within all
people to move toward completion or fulfillment of
potentials. (ROGERS)
actualizing tendency
An important psychosocial
stage when ego identity should be formed.
is characterized by puberty and the crisis of identity
versus identity confusion.
adolescence (ERIKSON)
The stage from about ages 31 to
60 that is characterized by the psychosexual mode of procreativity and the crisis of generativity versus
stagnation.
adulthood (ERIKSON)
Needs for art, music,
beauty, and the like (MASLOW)
aesthetic needs (MASLOW)
Safeguarding tendencies that may
include depreciation or accusation of others as well as
self-accusation, all designed to protect exaggerated
feelings of personal superiority by striking out against
other people.
aggression (Adler)
One of two primary instincts or drives that motivate people
is the outward
manifestation of the death instinct (FREUD)
aggression (FREUD)
Freudian term for a person who is
characterized by compulsive neatness, stubbornness, and
miserliness.
anal character
Sometimes called the anal-sadistic
phase, this second stage of the infantile period is characterized by a child’s attempts to gain pleasure from
the excretory function and by such related behaviors as
destroying or losing objects, stubbornness, neatness, and miserliness.
Corresponds roughly to the second year of
life. (FREUD)
anal phase
anal triad (FREUD)
The three traits of compulsive
neatness, stubbornness, and miserliness that characterize
the anal character.
Erikson’s term for the young child’s psychosexual mode of adapting.
anal-urethral-muscular
Theory of personality and approach to psychotherapy founded by Carl Jung
analytical psychology
Jungian archetype that represents the feminine component in the personality of males and originates
from men’s inherited experiences with women
anima
Jungian archetype that represents the masculine
component in the personality of females and originates
from women’s inherited experiences with men.
animus
A felt, affective, unpleasant state accompanied
by the physical sensation of uneasiness.
anxiety
The recognition that the events with
which one is confronted lie outside the range of
convenience of one’s construct system.
anxiety (Kelly)
The experience of the threat of
imminent nonbeing.
anxiety (MAY)
Feelings of uneasiness or tension with an unknown cause.
anxiety (ROGERS)
Any tension that interferes with
satisfaction of needs
anxiety (SULLIVAN)
Dynamism that reduces tensions of
needs through the adoption of an indifferent attitude.
apathy (SULLIVAN)
Jung’s concept that refers to the contents of the collective unconscious
also called
primordial images or collective symbols, represent psychic patterns of inherited behavior and are thus distinguished from instincts, which are physical impulses toward action
archetypes
A predisposition to act or react in a
characteristic manner, that is, in either an introverted or an extraverted direction.
attitude (Jung)
The tendency to give up one’s independence and to unite with another person or persons in order to gain strength.
Takes the form of masochism or sadism
authoritarianism (Fromm)