Neuroscience Week 7: Psychotherapy and Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Psychotherapy components

3 listed

Answer 1

Question 2

How do people change in therapy

4 listed

Answer 2

Question 3

Freud Psychotherapy concepts

Answer 3

Question 4

Topographic model components

3 listed

Answer 4

• Unconscious
• Preconscious
• Conscious

Question 5

Structural theory components

3 listed

Answer 5

• Id
• Ego
• Superego

Question 6

What are defending against?

Answer 6

Question 7

Feelings

7 listed

Answer 7

Question 8

Structural Theory: Id

Answer 8

Sexual and aggressive drives

Question 9

Structural Theory: Ego

Answer 9

Process of the self

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Structural Theory: Superego

Answer 10

Grows out of identification with parents and results in the concept of morality and justice

Question 11

Structural Theory Overview

Answer 11

Question 12

Freud’s view of Anxiety

5 listed

Answer 12

Anxiety is a signal of danger

Question 13

Carl Jung

Answer 13

Question 14

Object Relations Theorists

4 listed

Answer 14

• Melanie Klein
• Fairbairn
• Guntrip
• Winnicott

Question 15

Winnicott

5 listed

Answer 15

• Good enough parent
• Primary maternal preoccupation
• Transitional objects
• True/false self
• Manic Defense

Question 16

Secure Base Theory: Theorist

Answer 16

John Bowlby

Question 17

Secure Base Theory

4 listed

Answer 17

Question 18

Defenses function

Answer 18

Serve to minimize anxiety

Question 19

Defenses caveats

4 listed

Answer 19

• often self-destructive
• Often leads to psychological presentations
• Can be more tactical or more fundamental to who we are - character resistance
• Become part of our own personal story - Winnicott’s false self

Question 20

Defense Mechanisms

6 listed

Answer 20

• Repression
• Denial
• Projection
• Displacement
• Regression
• Sublimation

Question 21

Repression description

Answer 21

Repression is an unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious

Question 22

Denial Description

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• Denial involves blocking external events from awareness
• If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it

Question 23

Projection mechanism

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involves individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person

Question 24

Displacement description

Answer 24

satisfying an impulse (e.g. aggression) with a substitute object

Question 25

Regression description

Answer 25

This is a movement back in psychological time when one is faced with stress

Question 26

Sublimation description

Answer 26

Satisfying an impulse with a substitute object in a socially acceptable way

Question 27

Repression example

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During the Oedipus complex, aggressive thoughts about the same sex parents are repressed

Question 28

Denial example

Answer 28

smokers may refuse to admit to themselves that smoking is bad for their health

Question 29

Projection example

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You might hate someone, but your superego tells you that hatred is unacceptable. You can solve the problem by believing that they hate you

Question 30

Displacement example

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Someone who is frustrated by his or her boss at work may go home and kick the dog

Question 31

Regression example

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A child may begin to suck their thumb again or wet the bed when they need to spend some time in the hospital

Question 32

Sublimation example

Answer 32

Sport is an example of putting our emotions (e.g. aggressive) into something constructive

Question 33

Defenses overview

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Question 34

Primitive or less adaptive defense mechanisms 6 listed

Answer 34

* Denial * Regression * Acting out * Dissociation * Projection * Reaction formation

Question 35

Denial description

Answer 35

Don't acknowledge reality

Question 36

Regression description

Answer 36

back to an earlier function (psychological time)

Question 37

Acting Out description

Answer 37

extreme behavior expresses feelings

Question 38

Dissociation description

Answer 38

lose track of time, place or situation

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Projection description

Answer 39

attribute feelings to another

Question 40

Reaction formation description

Answer 40

convert unwanted feelings to their opposite

Question 41

Fairly adaptive defenses 5 listed

Answer 41

* Repression * Displacement * Intellectualization * Rationalization * Undoing

Question 42

Repression description

Answer 42

unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts or feelings

Question 43

Displacement description

Answer 43

Directing feelings toward another person

Question 44

Intellectualization description

Answer 44

Overemphasis of thinking to avoid difficult feelings

Question 45

Rationalization description

Answer 45

creating a reframe to protect against difficult feelings

Question 46

Undoing description

Answer 46

attempt to take back expression of feeling by doing the opposite

Question 47

Mature defenses 5 listed

Answer 47

* Sublimation * Humor/fantasy * Compensation * Altruism * Assertiveness

Question 48

Sublimation description

Answer 48

channeling unacceptable feelings into acceptable activity, often that is helpful or productive

Question 49

Humor/Fantasy description

Answer 49

other forms of sublimation

Question 50

Compensation description

Answer 50

embracing capacity without psychological emphasis on deficits

Question 51

Altruism description

Answer 51

the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Question 52

Assertiveness description

Answer 52

firm, direct, respectful expression of needs and feelings

Question 53

Managing defense mechanisms as a clinician 3 listed

Answer 53

Question 54

The goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy

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