PPT # 4 Psychodynamic Model of Counseling Flashcards
What is the most widely practiced form of therapy in the US?
Psychotherapy
What seeks to understand how each patient’s individual life story connects to the individual’s emotional suffering.
Psychodynamic
What is the goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy?
-Is to make the patient more aware of aspects of his or her life story that are not within consciousness.
Patients are encouraged to use what technique?
Free association
What is the emphasis on in psychodynamic psychotherapy?
Therapeutic Alliance
What is included in the Theory of Mind?
- Unconscious
- Motives in Conflict
- Development of the Mind
- Fantasy
Theory of Mind: What does the unconscious encompass?
Wishes
feelings
thoughts
attitudes
memories
Theory of Mind: Describe the motives in conflict
Relationship between id & ego
Theory of Mind: Describe the development of the mind.
– fixed stages (goals), challenges in development lead to specific conflicts
Theory of Mind: What is fantasy?
– our mind plays out desires in “real world” scenarios in our mind. Usually related to our childhood.
Define “object”
Actually means person and especially the significant person that is the object or target of another’s feelings or intentions.
Define “relation”
refers to interpersonal relations and suggests the residues of past relationships that affect a person in the present.
What does Object Relation stress?
- the importance of early mother-child bonding (or lack of).
1. infants form mental representations of themselves in relation to others and that these internal images
2. significantly influence interpersonal relationships later in life
3. Gives rise to attachment theory
Who, in the therapeutic process, is viewed as the “object”?
Therapist
List the Ego-Defense Mechanisms.
- Repression
- Denial
- Reaction Formation
- Projection
- Displacement
- Rationalization
- Sublimation
- Regression
- Isolation of Affect
- Splitting
- Suppression
- Humor
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Repression”
- Burying a painful feeling or thought from your awareness though it may resurface in symbolic form. Sometimes considered a basis of other defense mechanisms.
- I.E., you can’t remember your father’s funeral.
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Denial”
- Not accepting reality because it is too painful.
- You are arrested for drunk driving several times but don’t believe you have a problem with alcohol.
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Reaction Formation”
- Adopting beliefs, attitudes, and feelings contrary to what you really believe
- When you say you’re not angry when you really are.
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Projection”
- Attributing your own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone or something else
- You get really mad at your husband but scream that he’s the one mad at you.
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Displacement”
- Channeling a feeling or thought from its actual source to something or someone else.
- When you get mad at your sister, you break your drinking glass by throwing it against the wall.
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Rationalization”
- Justifying one’s behaviors and motivations by substituting “good”, acceptable reasons for these real motivations
- “I always study hard for tests and I know a lot of people who cheat so it’s not a big deal I cheated this time.”
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Sublimation”
- Redirecting unacceptable, instinctual drives into personally and socially acceptable channels
- Intense rage redirected in the form of participation in sports such as boxing or football
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Regression”
- Reverting to an older, less mature way of handling stresses and feelings
- You and your roommate have get into an argument so you stomp off into another room and pout
Define Ego-Defense Mechanisms “Isolation of Affect”
- Attempting to avoid a painful thought or feeling by objectifying and emotionally detaching oneself from the feeling
- Acting aloof and indifferent toward someone when you really dislike that person
