Helping Relationships Flashcards
Sigmund Frued is the father of psychoanalysis, which is both a form of treatment and a very comprehensive personality theory. According to Frued’s theory, inborn drives (mainly sexual) help form personality. ________ and ________, who originally worked with Frued, created individual psychology and analytic psychology, respectively.
Alfred Adler; Carl Jung.
Eric Berne’s transactional analysis (TA) posits three ego states: the Child, the Adult,and the Parent. These roughly correspond to Frued’s structural theory that includes
id,ego, and superego
In transactional analysis, the ________ is the conscience, or ego state concerned with moral behavior, while in Fruedian theory it is the ________
Parent; supergo
Frued felt that successful resolution of the Oedipus complex (Electra Complex in girls) led to the development of the superego. This is accomplished by
identification with the aggressor, the parent of the same sex.
Fruedians refer to the ego as
The executive administrator of the personality and the reality principle.
Frued’s theory speaks of Eros and Thanatos. A client who threatens a self-destructive act is being rules primarily by
Thanatos.
The id is present at birth and never matures. It operates mainly out of awareness to satisfy instinctual needs according to the
pleasure principle.
If you think of the mind as a seesaw, then the fulcrum or balancing apparatus would be the
ego
a therapist who says to a patient, “Say whatever comes to mind,” is practicing
free association
The super ego contains the ego ideal. The super ego strives for __________, rather than __________ like the id
perfection; pleasure.
All of these theorist could be associated with the analytic movement except
Wolpe
Most scholars would assert that Frued’s 1900 work entitled The Interpretation of Dreams was his most influential work. Dreams have ______ content and _______content
Manifest; latent.
When a client projects feelings toward the therapist that he or she originally had towards a significant other, it’s called
transference.
Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions and feelings is a curative process knowns as
catharsis and/or abreaction.
The most controversial aspect of Frued’s theory is
The Oedipus Complex (Electra complex in girls).
The most important concept in Frued’s theory is
the unconscious mind.
Unconscious processes which serve to minimize anxiety and protect the self from severe id or superego demands, are called
ego defense mechanisms
According to most Fruedians, the most important defense mechanism is
repression.
Suppression differs from repression in that
repression is involuntary.
An aggressive male who becomes a professional boxer because he is a sadist is displaying who ego defense?
sublimation.
Mark is obsessed with stamping out pornography. he is unconsciously involved in this cause so that he can view the material. This is
reaction formation
Ted has always felt inferior intellectually. He currently works out at the gym at least four hours daily and is taking massive doses of dangerous steroids to build his muscles. The ego defense mechanism in action here is
compensation.
A client who has incorporated his father’s value’s into his thought patterns is a product of
introjection.
The client’s tendency to inhibit or fight against the therapeutic process is known as
resistance.
The purpose of interpretation in counseling is to
make the clients aware of the unconscious processes.
Organ inferiority relates mainly to the work of
Alfred Adler’s individual psychology
When a client becomes aware of a factor in his or her life that heretofore unknown, counselors refer to it as
insight.
C. G. Jung, the founder of the analytics psychology, said men operate on logic or the _____ principle, while women are intuitive, operating on the ______ principle.
Logos; Eros.
______________ id said to be evident when the counselor’s strong feelings or attachment to the client are strong enough to hinder the treatment process.
countertransference.
Jung used drawings balanced around a center point to analyze himself, his clients, and dreams. he called them
mandalas
_________ emphasized the drive for superiority.
Adler
The statement, “Siblings interaction may have more impact than parent/child interaction” describes whose theory?
Alfred Alder’s
In contrast with Frued, the neo-Freudians emphasized ______
social factors.
