Masterclass_Relational Psychology Part 1 Flashcards
The realms that psychologists explore are the same ones that humans have ______ __ for millenia.
mulled over
_________ heavy topics is tough, but it does not have to be debilitating.
Broaching
The Flight\Flee _____. According to Ester, conflict between two people can be analysed using three combinations of two archetypes.
melee
Things to consider when you’re
cultivating a relationship—or
trying to _________ one.
salvage
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Esther’s key works, plus an
extensive reading list that she ________ just for you.
curated
As a practicing therapist and __________
public thinker, she has vivified countless
relationships—at work and at home
in-demand
For Esther, eroticism is “a quality
of aliveness, of ___________, of vitality, a
life force” that’s just as relevant to
your work life as it is to your love life
vibrancy
And because virtually everyone lives in a ________ of personal,
professional, and transactional relationships, the erotic charge of those
relationships is integrally tied to the
pursuit of a meaningful life.
matrix
Workplace dynamics have _______
large in her clinical work from the beginning, and she has explored the
subject as a speaker, a workshop facilitator, and a consultant to some of
the world’s biggest companies.
loomed
As she says at the ________ of
her class, “Between individuals, between couples, groups, nations—relationships are relationships.”
outset
Esther’s ________ sense of the erotic, and her fascination with relationships in all their complexity, can be traced back to relationships of her own.
expansive
Both of her parents were survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
After World War II, they settled in Belgium, where Esther was born in 1958.
Growing up, she watched her parents
embrace life even _ _ ____ _ unthinkable trauma
in the wake of
In addition to her many
high-profile speaking ____________
and consulting jobs, she still sees patients twice a week.
engagements
Eventually, her gift for illuminating the ever-evolving conventions of sexuality
came ___ ____ __________.
to the forefront
With her first book, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence,
published in 2006, Esther entered
the mainstream as an _______ public
thinker.
incisive
Her second book, 2017’s The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, brought
new levels of attention—especially
its thesis that adulterous episodes
within committed relationships
might not be the _____ ________
they’re so often made out to be.
deal breakers
A second TED Talk followed, as
did Esther’s first podcast, Where
Should We Begin?, which features
_____ - ______ therapy sessions with real
couples.
one-off
Esther easily could have
stayed __ ___ _____, but with the 2017
launch of How’s Work?, her second
podcast, she used the talk-therapy
format to explore workplace dynamics
in this lane
Startup founders, sex workers,
lobbyists, hairdressers—the show
revealed that no matter the job,
everyone _______ __ to work bearing a
unique relational history
shows up
You’ll work on cultivating self-awareness, creating
healthy boundaries, and ________ ___
your communication skills; you’ll also
learn how to approach conflict empathetically, broach difficult topics, and
regroup after you’ve been criticized.
leveling up
If you ever feel stuck in your romantic relationship (or lack _______) or career, you’re in the right place.
thereof
The work is both complex and
__________ simple.
exquisitely
The ancient Greek stoics—philosophers who prize
virtue, reason, and existential inquiry—are among the
first in the Western world to _________ the human
mind.
pathologize
Athenian thinker Plato attributes melancholia,
mania, and depression to an _____________ between the
rational soul, located in the brain, and the irrational soul,
which resides in the chest.
incongruence
Plato’s protégé Aristotle _______ that philosophical discussion can help heal _______ individuals—a ________ to psychotherapy, which revolves around conversation between a mental health professional and a patient.
surmises, afflicted, forerunner
Ancient matters of the mind are hardly restricted to the Mediterranean. For seven hundred years, great Hindu written works are produced under the name Patanjali. (Scholars disagree on who wrote
what using this _______.)
byline
One of Patanjali’s major contributions to psychology is a model of the mind: Separated into four concentric parts, it consists of an ___________ social self, a physical self, a psychological self, and, at the core, a cognitive apparatus.
outermost
Patanjali also identifies six psychological “____,” including lust,
greed, and pride—an idea that will echo more than two millennia later in Sigmund Freud’s conception of the id.
foes
Greek physician Aretaeus of Cappadocia claims that depression comes from the soul’s energy cooling down, which in turn could disturb one’s black bile—one of four fluids (or so the thinking goes) fueling the human constitution. Yet his description of depression is easily recognizable: “The melancholic isolates himself.… He curses life and wishes ___ death. He wakes up suddenly and is seized by a great tiredness.”
for
Generally, Europeans of the Middle Ages endure a ________ of scientific developments in psychology:
Mental illness (like the weather, coincidences, and other facts of life) is often seen as the devil’s work.
regression
Dutch master Hieronymus Bosch depicts a
medical procedure known as trepanation—the drilling of
holes into the skull to treat mental illness (as well as epilepsy
and other conditions). The method has been in use for most
of the common era and would be endorsed by prominent
thinkers through the seventeenth century, losing ______
only in the 1800s.
steam
Austrian physician Josef Breuer begins to develop a so-called _______ cure for his patient Bertha Pappenheim, who is diagnosed with “hysteria”—a later-disproved condition that allegedly leaves women in states of _______.
talking, frenzy
Although he ultimately abandons his ideas, Breuer’s protégé—
Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud—sees the _______ of psychotherapy. He launches the field by copublishing the book Studies on Hysteria with Breuer in 1895.
nucleus
Among the most prominent are ego psychology, which involves balancing ego and the demands of
reality; object relations theory, which emphasizes humanity’s reliance on relationships; and self psychology, which explains motivation in terms of self-esteem and __________.
self-cohesion
The twentieth-century theories of psychology inform the development of psychodynamic therapy, a form of talk therapy (in which Esther is trained) that explores unconscious ________ by identifying them and seeking out their root causes, typically through once- or twice-weekly meetings.
stirrings
Psychodynamic therapy also centers the relationship between client and therapist, whose discussions can be uniquely ____-_____.
free-form
