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Personality: Psychodynamic Approach Flashcards

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Sigmund Freud was born in

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Austria in 1856 and died in London in 1939

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Frued was a

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Medical doctor treating nervous disorders and his theory developed from clinical experience

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Frued was an

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Influential figure of the 20th century

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Frued believed cause of illness may be

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Psychogenic

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Origins of psychoanalytic thought

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Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes- brutish nature of humans and also

Physics of Hermann Von Helmholtz-conservation of energy- energy will “seek” an outlet

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Basic assumption was that mind was in three parts

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Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious

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Mind in three parts was

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Frueds view of the human mind- the mental iceberg

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Conscious level was

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Thoughts and perceptions

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Pre conscious level was

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Memories and stored knowledge

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Unconscious level was

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Fears
Violent motives
Immoral urges
Selfish needs
Shameful experiences
Irrational wishes 
Unacceptable sexual desires
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Freudian personality theory involved

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Structure
Dynamics
Development

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Structure of personality includes

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Id
Ego
Superego

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The ID operates

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To the pleasure principle

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Ego is

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Reality principle

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Superego is

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Morality principle-internalised code of conduct

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There is interaction between

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Id, ego and superego

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Dynamics of personality involves

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Types of anxiety and defence mechanisms

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What are the three types of anxiety?

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Objective
Neurotic
Moral

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What are the five defence mechanisms?

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Repression
Denial
Projection
Displacement
Reaction formation
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Development of personality is a

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Series of stages and each stage involves a conflict

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Adult personality depends if how

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Child resolved conflicts- “the child is father to the man”

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In development of personality, theory of infantile sexuality

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Erogenous zones-become focus of sexual pleasure and frustration -failure to resolve conflict leads to fixation

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What are the five psychosexual stages?

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Oral stage- 0 to 18 months
Anal stage- 18 months to three years
Phallic stage- three to five years
Latency stage- six years to puberty
Genital stage- puberty to adulthood
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Nature of freuds evidence: psychic determinism

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Nothing happens by chance(motivated unconscious)
The psychopathology of everyday life
“Mistakes that betray”

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What is parapraxis (Freudian slip)?

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A minor error in speech or action
Not random
Fulfilment of unconscious wished, e.g to close the meeting (Freud did this)

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Interpretations of dreams

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Dreams as “loyal road to the unconscious”
Manifest content vs latent content
Ego uses symbols to represent meaning

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Concerns about psychodynamic evidence

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The problem of interpretation

Empirical evidence for Freudian concepts is mixed

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Repression

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The essence of repression lies simply in turning something away and keeping it at a distance, from the conscious…
Freud, 1915

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Testing freuds repression hypothesis: levinger and Clark (1961)

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Participants shown negatively charged words-e.g quarrel, angry,fear
And neutral words-e.g window, cow, tree

Free association task

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Psychodynamic formulations after Freud

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Ego psychology (Anna Freud, Erikson, horney)- emphasis on skills and adaptive capacities of the ego

Object relations theory (fairbairn, winnicott, Klein)

Attachment theory (bowlby, ainsworth)

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Ego psychology: hierarchy of defence mechanisms

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Coping patterns (or adaptive styles) can be classified:

Humour, suppression,altruism
Repression, reaction formation projection,
Hypochondria, emotional outburst denial, distortion

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See slides for study

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In photos

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Contributions to psychodynamic approach

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Theory remains controversial
Opinions on theory differ dramatically
Impressive in scope and influence
Massive impact on psychology and beyond
No shortage of general criticisms
Also specific criticisms of theory

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