Neopsychoanalystic Flashcards
Karen Horney
Theory Of Personality
Theory of personality: Familial and Social context
Social relations and their development determine whether a person develops a healthy or neurotic personality.
Theory of personality: Neurotic Needs
The need:
* For Affection and approval
* For A partner to direct one’s life
* To confine one’s life with narrow limits
* For Power over others
* To exploit others
* For prestige and Recognition
* For personal Admiration
* For personal achievement
* For independence
* For perfection
Theory of personality: 3 Basis Life Strategies
- Moving towards people- Strategy of compliance and self-effacement (Needs 1-3)
- Moving against people- Strategy of Aggression (Needs 4-8)
- Moving away from people- Strategy of Withdrawal (Needs 9-10)
Harry Stack Sullivan
Pioneer in Mental Disorders of African Americans.
Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Theory of Cognition
Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
Personality as an “illusion” that cannot be understood apart from Social Relations
Individuals cope with their painful experiences by taking a hero or great moral teacher as their role model.
Personality (according to Sullivan)
Characteristic ways in with a person interacts with others
Security Operations
Behaviors used to lower anxiety in dealing with others, eg. Selective inattention and sublimation
Dynamisms
Dynamism refers to recurring behavior patterns that shape how we interact with others.
Self-system
Theory of Cognition (Suillivan)
- Prototaxic exp: perceives the world as a disconnected sensory exp.
- Prartaxic exp: perceives the causal relationship between events that occur together in time
- Syntaxic exp: Using Symbols that have a standard meaning shared with others
Erich Fromm
Social Psychologist
Freedom and Psychological conflict
Freedom
Basic Human condition that creates a separation and loneliness
3 mechanismas of evadinf=g demans=ds of Freedom
- Automation Conformity: Changing ideal self to preferred personality style and losing true self
- Authoritarianism: Allowing to be controlled by others
- Destructiveness: Eliminating other people to escape freedom
Basic Human Needs
Relatedness
Rootedness
Transcendence
Sense of Identity
Frame of reference or orientation
A need for excitement and stimulation
Character Orientations
- Exploitative: See others as resources
- Hoarding: Saving what has been obtained, not sharing
- Receptive: Expect others to provide meaning or affection
- Marketing: Considering yourself as an objects
- Productive: Perceiving the world more accurately, enriching it using talents in positive and generous manner
Eric Berne
Parent, Adult, Child
Parent Ego: Parental Figures exhibition
Adult Ego: Dealing with external world effectively
Child Ego: Intuition, creativity, spontaneous drive, enjoyment coming from one’s childhood
Complementary Transaction
The conversation flows smoothly because the response matches the expected ego state.
Crossed Transactions
Communication breaks down because the response comes from an unexpected state.
Ulterior Transactions
There’s a hidden meaning behind the words, often with double messages.
Example:
Words (Adult): “Can you explain this again?”
Hidden meaning (Child): “I need attention and reassurance.”
These are often used in flirting, sarcasm, or passive-aggressive behavior.
