Models Of Psychotherapy Flashcards
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Pertaining to the cognitive, emotional and volitional mental processes that consciously and unconsciously motivate behavior. Theses processes are the interplay between genetic and biological heritage, the sociocultural milieu, past and current realities, perceptual abilities and distortions and ones unique experiences and memories.
What is psychodynamic theory?
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY Psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Freud) Analytic theory (Jung) Individual psychology (Adler) The neo-Freudians The ego-analysts Object-relations theorists
Types of psychodynamic therapy
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
The hypothesis and treatment applications about human personality and its development as proposed by Freud. Influential between 1940-1965. Two separate but interrelated theories comprised personality.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
1.personality has 3 structures
A)Id- present at birth, consist of individuals unconscious drive/needs. Seeks immediate gratification of need to avoid tension. Operates on pleasure principal.
B)ego- 6 months; responds to Ids inability to gratify all needs; defers gratification until an appropriate object is available in reality; employs
secondary process thinking (perception, sensation, memory and logical thinking). Operates on reality principle. Acts as mediator b/w Id and superego.
C) superego- 4-5 years; internalization of societal norms; rewarded behaviors become part of ideal norms; punished behaviors are incorporated into conscious; tries to block the Ids socially unacceptable drives.
2. Conflict b/w any two of these 3 structures produces anxiety. The ego responds to anxiety produced by unresolved conflict by resorting to one of the following defense mechanisms:
3. These defense mechanisms all operate on an unconcious level and they all serve to deny reality
Personality theory
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
The partial or complete arrest of personality dev at one of the psychosexual stages
Fixation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Individual engages in a repetitious ritual to abolish the results of a previous action.
Undoing
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Replacing an unobtainable or unacceptable goal with one that is attainable and acceptable.
Substitution
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Memories are separated from the emotions that once accompanied them
Isolation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
A mental mechanism in which one tries to make up for real or imagined characteristics that are considered to be undesirable
Compensation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
A mental process in which a person forms and image of another person who is important and then thinks, acts and feels in a way that resembles the other person’s behavior
Identification
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Anxiety or emotional conflict is transformed into overt physical manifestations or symptoms such as pain, loss of feeling or paralysis
Conversion
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
The individual has thoughts or feelings that are inappropriate to the current situation
Dissociation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Protects the personality for anxiety and guilt by disavowing or ignoring unacceptable thoughts, emotions or wishes
Denial
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
A mental mechanism in which an individual derives feelings from another person or object and directs them internally to an imagined form of the person or object
Introjection
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Unacceptable aspects of ones own personality is rejected or attributed to another person or entity
Projection
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
An individual behaves or thinks in ways or assumes values that are the opposite of the unconcious trait
Reaction- formation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Behaviors and thought patterns that indicate a return to earlier or more primitive levels of development
Regression
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
The individual unconsciously pushes certain unacceptable memories, ideas and desires from the conciosness
Repression
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Transfers certain thoughts, feelings and wishes onto other thoughts and feelings that are more desirable
Displacement
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Desires and distinctive drives that are consciously intolerable and cannot be directly realized are diverted into creative activities that are acceptable to the individual and society
Sublimation
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
An individual explains or justifies an action or thought to make it acceptable when it is unacceptable at a deeper psychological level
Rationalization
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
The individual ignores feelings/emotions and analyzes problems as objectively as possible but but usually in a stylized overly-rational way
Intellectualization
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY Free association Transference/ counter transference Analyzing/ interpreting resistance Ego analysis Dream interpretation
Techniques of psychoanalytic psychotherapy:
PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY
Hypothesis that personality is more a result of striving for self -realization than a result of methods used to reduce anxiety. Jung is father. Rejected the notion that libido is primarily sexual in nature and he placed great emphasis on the role played by and individuals aspirations, goals, and plans for the future
Analytic theory