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Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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1
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Freud’s theory focuses on

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the unconscious where we bury conflicts making conscious life more difficult

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Who was Charcot and influence on Freud

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Charcot thought hysteria had a cure, condition is of psychological origin
Freud spent year with him, made impression, thought of hypnosis, inspired idea of unconscious

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Hysteria and treatments

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spastic tics, speech impairments, electrotherapy and hypnosis

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What caused hysteria according to Freud

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sexual abuse during childhood

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Abrecation

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emotional outpouring from patient

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Josef Breuer

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Prominent Viennese psychologist, researched hysteria

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Who did Freud work with after Charcot

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Breuer

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Who was treating Anna O

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Breuer

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Why was Anna o significant

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Being treated in revolutionary new treatment - talking treatment

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Talking treatment

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Bringing back painful experiences and talking about them, symptoms got better

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Transference

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Strong emotional attachment from ind to therapist

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Free association & its use

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Encouraging patients to speak freely, little censorship or guidance. To make patients feel better over time and reveal disturbing instances linked to past

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What are the four attributes of instincts

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Have four attributes - source, aim, object, impetus.

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Instinctual activity is ___

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Cyclical

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15
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The ___ is the energy some of the life instinct

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Libido

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The death instinct is an extension of ___

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Conservation of energy

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Who was little Hans

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Son of a friend, follower of Freud, treated by father, witnessed an accident at four years old developed

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Why did Hans have a fear of horses according to Freud

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Afraid father would castrate him for desiring his mother

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What are the 3 levels of consciousness

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Conscious mind, preconscious mind, unconscious mind

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What is the structure of personality (3)

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Ego, superego, id

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What is dream analysis

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Dreams uncensored, so everything is fair game, gives access to repressed thoughts

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What is the latent content of dreams

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Underlying hidden meaning of a dream

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What is the manifest content of dreams

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Content that is remembered

24
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List the 5 psychosexual stages

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Oral (0-1), anal (1-3), phallic (3-6), latent (7-13), genital (puberty-death)

25
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Oedipus complex

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Rivalry with father

26
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Castration anxiety

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Fantasize about getting rid of father but know he is stranger, fear of being punished for desire

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Fixation

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Neurosis, dependencies, addictions, clinical depression

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Libido

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Sex drive

29
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Defence mechanisms , coined by ___

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Anna Freud, tricks used by ego to protect individual from anxiety, unaware of use

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Denial is ___

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Primitive

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What is denial

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Refusal to acknowledge anxiety-provoking stimuli, distorts event perception

32
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What is repression

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Denial to consciousness, basic defenses against anxiety caused by internal consciousness

33
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What is regression

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Returning to an earlier, safer time in life, immature behaviour

34
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Regression is ___

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Primitive

35
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Projection is ___

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Primitive

36
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What is projection

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Attributing unacceptable taboo whites and thoughts to someone else when they are attributes of oneself

37
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What is displacement

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Shifting one’s unconscious aggression or fears to a safer target

38
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What is sublimation

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Dangerous urges channeled into positive, socially meaningful actions

39
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Reaction formation is ___

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Primitive

40
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What is reaction formation

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Transforming anxiety-producing thoughts into their opposites in consciousness, exaggerated behaviour

41
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What is rationalization

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Creating logical, socially acceptable explanation for behaviours which are driven by unconscious impulses

42
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How aid Melanie Klein’s object relations theory differ from Freud’s theory

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Variant of psychoanalytic theory, places less emphasis on bio based needs and more on relationships

43
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Fixation at the oral stage causes one to be ___

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Gullible

44
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The I’d has two mechanisms

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Reflex action and primary process

45
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Who introduced terms such as anxiety, repression. Unconscious, etc

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Freud

46
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The psyche is defined as (3)

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Our mind, thoughts & feelings, how we define ourselves

47
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Repression is the only defense that leaves ___ in the memory

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Holes

48
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id operates by the ___ principle

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Pleasure

49
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Superego operates by the ___ principle

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Morality

50
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The ego is the _ part that developed

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Second

51
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The ego mediates the demands of the

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id and superego

52
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Positivism in biological science sought to

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Apply experimental rigour of astronomy, physics, chemistry to biology, physiology, and medicine

53
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Subliminal messages have a very _ impact on decisions

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Brief

54
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Freud argued the mind is both

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Psychological and biological

55
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Freudian slips occur more when tired or distracted because

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Defense are down and unconscious slips out

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