Module 44 Flashcards
Psychodynamic Perspective
In his clinical practice, Freud encountered patients suffering from nervous disorders whose complaints could not be explained in terms of purely physical causes.
Personality is the result of our efforts to resolve the conflict breeze our aggressive, pleasure seeking impulses and the internalized social restraints against them.
Personality
The individuals characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
Exploring the unconscious
A reservoir (unconscious mind) of Mosul unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. Freud asked patients to say whatever came to their mind (free association) to tap the unconscious.
Dream analysis
Another method to analyze the unconscious mind through interpreting the manifest and latent content of dreams.
Latent content
What dreams symbolically means.
Manifest content
What actually was seen in the dream.
Psychoanalysis
The process of free association let to painful, embarrassing unconscious memories. Once these memories were retrieved and released, the patient felt better.
Id
Contains reservoir of unconscious psychic energy.
Strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
Operates on the pleasure principle (demands immediate gratification).
Ego
Largely conscious “executive” part of personality.
Mediates among the demands of the Id and superego, and reality.
Ex: baby is hungry and Id responds by crying. Ego has taught baby that it’s need will be met shortly so there’s no need to cry.
Superego
The part of the personality that presents internalized ideals. CONSCIENCE.
Provides standards for judgement (the conscience) and for future aspirations.
Represents persons moral code.
Personality structure
Personality develops as a result of our efforts to resolve conflict between our biological, pleasure seeking impulses (Id) and social restraints (superego).
Think ICEBERG
Psychosexual stages
Freud believed that personality formed during life’s first few years divided into psychosexual stages. During the stages, the ids pleasure seeking energies focused on pleasure sensitive body areas called erogenous zones.
Oral stage
Pleasure centers on the mouth, sucking, biting, chewing.
Anal stage
Pleasure focuses on bowel and bladder elimination; coping with demands for control.
Phallic stage
Pleasure zone is the genitals; coping with incestuous sexual feelings.
Latency stage
Dormant sexual feelings.
Genital stage
Maturation of sexual interests.
Fixations
A strong conflict can lock one in the psychosexual stage.
Oedipus/Electra complex
A boys sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father. Also electric complex for the girls desire for the father.
Repression
Banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. Slips out in dreams and slips of the tongue.
Regression
Leads and individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage.
Reaction formation
Causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites. People may express feelings of purity when they may be suffering anxiety from unconscious feelings about sex.
Projection
Defense mechanism that involves taking our own unacceptable qualities are feelings and attribute in them to other people. For example, she doesn’t trust me becomes I don’t trust her.
Rationalization
Offers self justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one’s actions.
