Neuroscience Week 7: Psychotherapy and Defense Mechanisms Flashcards
Psychotherapy components
3 listed
How do people change in therapy
4 listed
Freud Psychotherapy concepts
Topographic model components
3 listed
- Unconscious
- Preconscious
- Conscious
Structural theory components
3 listed
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
What are defending against?
Feelings
7 listed
Structural Theory: Id
Sexual and aggressive drives
Structural Theory: Ego
Process of the self
Structural Theory: Superego
Grows out of identification with parents and results in the concept of morality and justice
Structural Theory Overview
Freud’s view of Anxiety
5 listed
Anxiety is a signal of danger
Carl Jung
Object Relations Theorists
4 listed
- Melanie Klein
- Fairbairn
- Guntrip
- Winnicott
Winnicott
5 listed
- Good enough parent
- Primary maternal preoccupation
- Transitional objects
- True/false self
- Manic Defense
Secure Base Theory: Theorist
John Bowlby
Secure Base Theory
4 listed
Defenses function
Serve to minimize anxiety
Defenses caveats
4 listed
- 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
Defense Mechanisms
6 listed
- Repression
- Denial
- Projection
- Displacement
- Regression
- Sublimation
Repression description
Repression is an unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious
Denial Description
- Denial involves blocking external events from awareness
- If some situation is just too much to handle, the person just refuses to experience it
Projection mechanism
involves individuals attributing their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings and motives to another person