Midterm

Question 1

Actual Neurosis

Answer 1

psychopathology caused by an actual physical trauma

Into the class of actual neuroses fell, chiefly, neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis. Later Freud added hypochondria

Question 2

Neurosis

Answer 2

A neurosis is a psychological state characterized by excessive anxiety or insecurity without evidence of neurologic or other organic disease, sometimes accompanied by defensive or immature behaviors.

Question 3

Affects

Answer 3

pre-linguistic – once we can put language to it, it’s a feeling

Question 4

Anal Stage

Answer 4

Control self for the sake of the other; maintain control by retaining.
Anal expulsive – clients do whatever they want – impulsive with no consequences
(2-4 years of age) during which the child derives libidinal satisfaction from the retention or expulsion of feces. Moving toward autonomy and independence, resolution: independence, lack of ambivalence, autonomy, initiative

Question 5

Anal Sadistic

Answer 5

Struggle b/w control and expulsion
Anal sadistic – aggression expulsion – response to controls
Aggressive acting-out - expression of anger wishes connected with discharging feces as destructive (example of fantasies of explosions)

Question 6

Psychoanalytic Theory of Anxiety

Answer 6

When child first displays anxiety and shame, the superego is emerging
Focus on function of anxiety related to threats to the organism
Real anxiety: threat from a known danger
Neurotic anxiety: threat from an unknown source
Anna Freud – three types of anxiety; instinctual (ego vs. id), superego (ego vs. superego), and objective (ego vs. external world).

Question 7

Average Expectable Environment

Answer 7

Hartmann; an environment that is responsive to the child’s psychological needs.

Question 8

Basic Trust

Answer 8

(Erikson) - Erikson’s Epigenetic Sequence of Inst. Zones…. Successful resolution of first crisis stage: disposition to trust others, oneself and have self-confidence.

Question 9

Castration Anxiety

Answer 9

during phallic stage) identification with the father. Fear of castration due to the realization of forbidden sexual desire. Symbolic threat to genitals, not physical.

Question 10

Cathexis

Answer 10

An investment of libido energy – goes inside for children of abuse and neglect – can become schizoid.
energy focused on (attached to) a certain emotion, object, other person, or self.

Question 11

Component Instinct

Answer 11

Highly charged sexually charged experiences are components that become part of mature sexuality

Component = certain highly charged sexual experiences are all components that will become part of mature genital sexuality

Question 12

Compromise Formation

Answer 12

Drive coming up against superego experience that leads to anxiety – the negotiation between the id, ego, and superego.
It is the balance of defense and expression. Occurs outside our awareness. Think of the ego defense to ward off anxiety

Question 13

Conflict-Free Ego Capacities

Answer 13

synthetic functions of the ego that are conflict free, innate, and inherited. They allow infants to immediately fit into their immediate environment (AKA primary autonomous ego function). The equipment that allows them to do so consists of a set of intrinsic potentials called CFECs. This is in contrast to other psychoanalytic work, which indicates that adaptation comes out of resolution of conflict, whereas Hartmann stated that these abilities are inborn

Question 14

Consciousness/Systems Cs

Answer 14

awareness of the immediate environment.
The actual contents of awareness;i.e.,what one is conscious of at a given moment. Freud’s way of talking about “the conscious” is similar to what a cognitive psychologist means by attention