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Neuroscience Week 7: Psychotherapy and Defense Mechanisms Flashcards

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Psychotherapy components

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How do people change in therapy

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Freud Psychotherapy concepts

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Topographic model components

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  • Unconscious
  • Preconscious
  • Conscious
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Structural theory components

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  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
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What are defending against?

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Feelings

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Structural Theory: Id

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Sexual and aggressive drives

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Structural Theory: Ego

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Process of the self

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Structural Theory: Superego

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

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Structural Theory Overview

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Freud’s view of Anxiety

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Anxiety is a signal of danger

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Carl Jung

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Object Relations Theorists

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  • Melanie Klein
  • Fairbairn
  • Guntrip
  • Winnicott
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Winnicott

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  • Good enough parent
  • Primary maternal preoccupation
  • Transitional objects
  • True/false self
  • Manic Defense
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Secure Base Theory: Theorist

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John Bowlby

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Secure Base Theory

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Defenses function

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Serve to minimize anxiety

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Defenses caveats

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  • 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
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Defense Mechanisms

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

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

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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
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Projection mechanism

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

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Displacement description

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

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Regression description

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

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Sublimation description

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

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Repression example

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

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Denial example

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

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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

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Displacement example

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

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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

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Sublimation example

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

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Defenses overview

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Primitive or less adaptive defense mechanisms

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  • Denial
  • Regression
  • Acting out
  • Dissociation
  • Projection
  • Reaction formation
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Denial description

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Don’t acknowledge reality

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Regression description

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back to an earlier function (psychological time)

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Acting Out description

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extreme behavior expresses feelings

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Dissociation description

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lose track of time, place or situation

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Projection description

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attribute feelings to another

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Reaction formation description

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convert unwanted feelings to their opposite

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Fairly adaptive defenses

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  • Repression
  • Displacement
  • Intellectualization
  • Rationalization
  • Undoing
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Repression description

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unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts or feelings

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Displacement description

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Directing feelings toward another person

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Intellectualization description

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Overemphasis of thinking to avoid difficult feelings

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Rationalization description

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creating a reframe to protect against difficult feelings

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Undoing description

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attempt to take back expression of feeling by doing the opposite

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Mature defenses

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  • Sublimation
  • Humor/fantasy
  • Compensation
  • Altruism
  • Assertiveness
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Sublimation description

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

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Humor/Fantasy description

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other forms of sublimation

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Compensation description

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embracing capacity without psychological emphasis on deficits

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Altruism description

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

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Assertiveness description

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firm, direct, respectful expression of needs and feelings

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Managing defense mechanisms as a clinician

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The goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy

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