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neo-analysits/freudians

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Horney, Sullivan, fromm

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ego-analysts

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Anna freud, Erik Erickson, MacAdams rapport, hartman

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object relations approach

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Melanie klein, otto Kernberg, Margaret Mahler, Heinz kohlt, donals winnicott, Ronald fairmaim

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attachment theorist

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bowlby

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current psychological problems can be traced to early experiences due to

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unconscious processes, deterministic POV

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Freuds classical psychoanalysis

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theory of human behavior, theory of personality, psychotherapy

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freud feelings for parents

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conflicting

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freud lived in

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Vienna

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Freud tried to convince academicians about

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reasons behind human behavior

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freud patients

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women with neurotic disorders, neurosis, hysteria, conversion disorder

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conversion disorder

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physical symptoms without any physiological reasons

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freud: Paris

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Charcot and hypnosis

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freud: Vienna

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breuer and ‘talking therapy’

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freud goal

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complete theory of human behavior

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development of psychoanalytic societies all over the world

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jung, adler

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freud was known to become friends with a lot of influential people, however

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after a while the relationship would come to an end

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freud developed very comprehensive theory of

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human behavior and personality

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freud developed very effective, influential techniques of

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psychotherapy

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origin of psychoanalysis

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Breuer and his patient Anna with hysteria

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breuer and anna method

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catharsis, talking method, chimney sweeping
verbalizing associations under hypnosis

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effects of breuer and Anna method

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annas symptoms were released

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fried started to use talking method with own patients to

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help them remember past traumatic events

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freud insights: patient unaware of

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unconscious traumatic event

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freud insights: showing resistance to

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bring event to consciousness

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freud insights: repress

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wish or desire into unconscious

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freud insights: not aware of the unconscious processes of

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resistance and repression

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freud insights: the repressed material and wishes/desires that

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occur during the traumatic event and are against persons ego ideal

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freud insights: emotions that are prevented from being expressed normally

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may be expressed through a neurotic symptom

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freud insights: to reduce symptoms, these emotions should

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be brought to consciousness and accepted

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freud: conversion hysteria and early seduction theory

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caused by childhood sexual abuse repressed to the unconscious

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psychoanalysis

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personality theory
method to study the mind
treatment for psychological disorders

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adjectives that describe qualities of these functions

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conscious and unconscious

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dynamic functions of personality

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id, ego, superego

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conflict of structure and functions of personality

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key to understanding the self

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conflict of id, ego, superego

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divided against itself in the world

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ego becomes overwhelmed as

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id demands increase

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when the defense mechanism are used to the extreme

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neurosis

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neurosis resulting in problems in

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daily functioning

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the core personality

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ID

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id is ___

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innate

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reflexes, instincts, and drives that motivate us

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ID

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source of all psychic energy

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ID

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no connection to environmental realities

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ID

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ID works on the

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pleasure principle, primary processes,

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ID needs another structure to

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connect it to the environment for need satisfaction

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the structure related to environmental realities

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ego

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faithful servant to ID

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ego

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ego develops towards the ___ year

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first year of life

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ego works on the __ principle

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reality

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ego distinguishes between

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fact and fantasy

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ego satisfies ID needs when

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environment conditions are ok

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superego learned through

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rewards and punishments of primary care-givers

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superego develops through the

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internalization of the parents/societies rules

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superego develops toward ___ year

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4-5

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tries to regulate ego

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superego

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superego works toward never giving way to needs of

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ID

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superego works on ___ principle

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mortality

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consists of conscience and ego-ideal

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superego

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superego represents

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internalized values, ideals, moral standards

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awareness of things happening at the moment

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conscious

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those that can be conscious if wanted to

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pre-conscious

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outside of awareness, repressed wishes, conflicts, childhood events

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unconscious

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anxiety is a

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signal

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anxiety guides the ego toward

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problem at the moment of danger

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the ___ reduces this anxiety

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ego

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ego reduces anxiety through

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realistic coping mechanisms

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natural anxiety

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when there are events in the environment threatening to survival

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neurotic anxiety

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when the dangers ID impulses feel like going out of control

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defense mechanisms

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mechanisms the EGO uses to reduce anxiety, when the realistic coping mechanisms fail

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cognitive processes that distort or deny reality

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defense mechanisms

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defense mechanisms satisfy

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momentary instinctual drives in a veiled way

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fear of real ranger in the external world

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reality anxiety

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fear that one’s inner impulses cannot be controlled

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neurotic anxiety

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fear of the retributions of ones own conscious

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moral anxiety

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in order to deal with anxiety

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ego develops defense mechanisms

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defense mechanisms are regulated by the

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unconscious

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defense mechanisms used more intensely or to extreme by

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people who have psychological problems

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the basic ‘lid’ the ego uses on the id

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repression

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the ego uses some of its own energy to

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repress the anxiety producing memories, thoughts, emotions, drives into the consciousness

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the repressed psychic material is not lost from the unconscious and forces the

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ego to be satisfied

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sublimation

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through this defense mechanism, even the drives/needs that are considered to be taboo, can be satisfied in a socially acceptable or admired way

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help push the anxiety producing drives and memories into the unconscious so that they are not remembered

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repression

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helps to not acknowledge and not think about the anxiety producing events and thoughts

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helps taking out our frustrations, feelings, and impulses on people or other objects that are less threatening

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displacementi

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in a stressful situation, reverting backward to a behavior used in childhood

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regression

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taking our own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people

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projection

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explanation an unacceptable behavior or feeling in a rational or logical manner, avoiding the true reasons for the behavior

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rationalization

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repressing the anxiety provoking drive and taking up the opposite feeling, impulse, or behavior

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reaction formation

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allows us to act out unacceptable impulses by converting these behaviors into a more acceptable form

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sublimation

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childhood abuse

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repression

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insisting on not having a certain important disease even though the doctors say the opposite

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the angry reaction that can not be shown to the boss at work is shown to the spouse, child or pet at home

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displacement

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after a fight with her spouse, the wife goes to her parents house

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regression

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a husband wishing to be with another women causes his wife of infidelity

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projection

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a student might blame a poor exam score on the instructor rather than his or her lack of preparation

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rationalization

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treating someone you strongly dislike in an excessively friendly manner in order to hide your true feelings

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reaction formation

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a person experiencing extreme anger might take up kick-boxing as a means of venting frustration

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sublimation

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19th century Vienna and perception of sexuality

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strict rules against free sexuality, beastly, only for reproduction

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freud shared much of society’s ___ attitude

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freud relentlessly searched for

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reality behind the mask

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freud primary motivation for sexuality

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pleasure seeking

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a child who actively seeks pleasure from many areas of the body is

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polymorphous perverse

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sexual activity of children is

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autoerotic

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freud abandoned his ___ theory

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freud abandoned his seduction theory and worked on a more

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psychological explanation tinted with mythology

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psychosexual development the ____ are important

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first few years

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the pleasure seeking trends of the ID focuses on

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different areas of the body in different stages of life

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when the stressful events are beyond coping

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a person can escape/regress toward a previous psychosexual stage

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Freuds psychosexual stages

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital

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oral stage

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birth to 1 year
mouth, ingestion, biting

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anal stage

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1-2 years
toilet training, child in control

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phallic stage

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3-6 years old
pleasure source genital organs
oedipus complex

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latency stage

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7-puberty
sexual drive inhibited, libido directed toward intellectual activities

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genital stage

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puberty to adulthood
rebirth of sexual and aggressive drives

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if libido is frustrated or overindulged during a stage it can

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become fixated at particular stage

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fixation creates excessive needs characteristic of

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earlier stage

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oral personalities, orally fixated

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dependent on and easily influenced by others
optimistic and trusting

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anal personalities

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orderly, miserly, obstinate

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oral personality, adult extension

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smoking, eating, kissing, oral hygiene, drinking, chewing gum

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oral personality sublimation

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seeking knowledge, humor, wit, sarcasm, food or wine expert

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anal personality adult extensions

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notable interests in one’s bowel movements, love of bathroom humor, extreme messiness

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anal personality sublimation

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interest in painting or sculpture, being overly giving, great interest in statistics

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phallic personality adult extensions

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heavy reliance on masturbation, flirtatiousness, expressions of virility

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phallic personality sublimations

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interest in poetry, love of love, interest in acting, striving for success

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freud psychosexual stages criticized for being

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too biologically determined overlooking social and cultural factors

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freud: the way people invest their ____ determines their future

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freud: character is built up by

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responding to one’s sexuality

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the way a person resolves the ____ is crucial to adult personality

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oedipus complex

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neurosis represents a fixation to

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an earlier stage of sexual development

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the normal/mature individual is one who

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behaves conventionally at genital level of sexuality and its implications

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psychoanalysis: insights from practice related to

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traumatic events

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an emotion that is prevented from being expressed normally may be

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expressed through a neurotic symptom

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force that prevents the patient from becoming aware of events and keeps them in the unconscious

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resistance

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blocking a wish or desire from the consciousness

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repression

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repressed material are wishes that are

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against a persons ego ideal that arouse a traumatic event

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strong emotions advantage and disadvantage

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self regulation
if expressed inappropriately

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ideal reactions to emotions

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acknowledged, accepted, guided into constructive or harmless channels of expression

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free association helps

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patients recover repressed ideas

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dreams are the royal road to

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unconscious

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childrens dreams are easy to understand because

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defenses have not masked their motives

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childrens dreams are simply the

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fulfillment of unsatisfied wishes from the day before

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adult dreams express

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wishes in disguise

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manifest dreams

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the dream remembered
distinguished fulfillment of repressed wishes

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latent dreams

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the underlying motive of the dream which is under the mask

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analysis seek to discover ____ meaning on dream

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latent meaning is reached through

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free associating to the elements of the dream

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importance of sexuality in Freud’s theory: early work

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bodily process understood under the model of tension reduction

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importance of sexuality in Freud’s theory: later work

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more psychological understanding, more wholistic approach to body and mind

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emotional and psychic energy derived from the basic drive of sexuality

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a psychological or mental representation of an inner bodily source of excitement

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features of a drive

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source/bodily need
impetus/intensity
aim/goal/purpose to reduce tension
object/something through which the drive is reduced

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eros

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life impulses
survival and reproduction

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thanatos

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death impulses

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patient transfers to the analyst emotional attitudes felt as a child toward significant person

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transference

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becoming aware how ones behaviors are being affected by the unconscious transference processes

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doing, working through earlier conflict

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working through

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allows patients to rework important relationships to a more satisfactory resolution

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analytic processes

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difficult to translate Freuds concepts into

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operational definitions and procedures that allow testing

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Freuds theory is scientifically hard to

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freuds theory concepts function philosophically trying to explain

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human nature in general

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Freuds theory based on observation of

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self, clients in clinical setting

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Freuds theory needs to be evaluated using

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philosophical criteria

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coherence

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unfinished nature
contradictions

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relevance impacted many

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people, artists, writers

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relevance changed view of humanity from being

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rational human to one that is a slave to ID

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slave to ID

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pleasure seeking, sexually driven, aggressive creatures

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scholarly approach to psychotherapy

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comprehensiveness

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only if a person goes through self-analysis

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compellingness

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