Helping Relationships: Psychodynamic Psychotherapies Flashcards
Freud’s personality theory consists of two separate, but interrelated, theories.
Structural and Developmental theories
The assumption that personality is the result of an interplay of opposing forces within the person.
Psychodynamic
Freud’s theory that posits the personality with three structures
Structural theory
The three structures of the personality according to Freud.
The ego, the id, and the superego
Present at birth and consists of the individual’s unconscious instinctual drives or needs; serves as the source of all psychic energy.
The Id
The “id” is said to operate on the basis of this because it seeks immediate gratification of its needs in order to avoid tension.
Pleasure principle
Develops at about six months of age in response to the id’s inability to gratify all of its needs.
Ego
Ego operation basis which defers gratification of the id’s instincts until an appropriate object is available in reality
Reality principle
Involves forming a dream, hallucination, or other mental image of an object that would satisfy its needs.
Primary process thinking
Encompasses rational strategies as sensation, perception, logical thinking and memory.
Secondary process thinking
Emerges when the child is between four and five years of age and represents an internalization of society’s values and standards as conveyed to the child by his/her parents through their rewards and punishments.
Superego
Behaviors rewarded by the child’s parents becomes a part of this.
Ego ideal
Behaviors that are punished are incorporated into the child’s _________________.
Conscience
To reduce tension, it relies primarily on reflex actions and primary process thinking.
The Id
It’s primary task is to mediate the often conflicting demands of the id and reality and, once it has developed, the superego.
Ego
