Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies Flashcards
Intrapsychic conflict refers to
Conflict between different aspects of the self that hold opposing perceptions or emotions, one or more of which is out of awareness
Symptoms are often seen as an expression of
Inner conflict
Freud was exposed to ___ work on ____
Charcots work
Hypnosis
Hypnosis could
Induce and intensify hysterical symptoms and lead to their resolution
Breuer and Freud argued that emotions related to trauma remained ___
unconscious
Catharsis refers to
the release of emotions associated with painful experience that had not been discharged
Hypnosis was replaced by ___ ____
free association
Basic sexual feelings according to freud are present since
early infancy
thinking and action are fueled by ____ according to freud
libido
once that active energy was activated
it had to be discharged to restore equilibrium
the breast becomes an object invested with ___ ___
psychic energy
pleasure principle refers to
our psychological push to repeat experiences that have become linked with tension reduction
Drive theory concepts
eros and thanatos
According to Freud’s Drive theory, libidinal energies seek
gratification and the preservation of the species
According to Freuds Drive theory, ego seeks preservation of ___
ndividual
What’s the developmental sequence of libidinal drives
oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital
psychosexual development
psychological development is linked to the biological process of sexual development from infancy to adolescence
Oral duration
birth- middle of second year
Anal duration
2.5-3.5
phalic duration
3.4-6
latent duration
6-12
genital
12-adulthood
Major development in oral stage
weening off of breast feeding
anal major development
toilet training
anal major development
toilet training
Phallic development
resolving oedipous/electra complex
Latency major development
Developing defense mechanisms
Genital major development
reaching full sexual maturity
Topographical theory of the mind
Unconscious, subconscious, unconscious
unconscious refers to
Ideas, drives, emotions, fantasies and memories out of perception
outside conscious control
they are at the root of neurotic symptoms
Preconscious/subconscious
Intermediate position between conscious and unconscious
The ego is free floating in which levels
All of them
What’s in the conscious?
Thoughts or motives that we are aware of and remember
What’s in the preconscious
Thoughts or motives blocked form normal awearness
eg. feelings of hunger, thoughts of friends you need to contact
What’s in the unconscious
Primitive instinctual motives, anxiety thoughts and memories blocked from awareness
eg. sexual desires, aggressive impulses or irrational thoughts and feelings
Basic mood develops during
the first year
confident expectancy
a mood that can emerge after a happy first year in which baby’s needs are met
Fixation occurs when
aspects of the personality get stuck at the developmental moment in which a traumatic event or unresolved conflict occurred
Regression
The person reverts to earlier forms of behavior in response to stress
Enactment
form of action memory in which memories of sequences of troublesome experiences are replayed in action
Structural model
ego, id, superego
Id
Primitive impulses that are the ultimate motives for our behaviors
It has no time dimension
Most common symptom of neurosis
Anxiety
Major function of the ego is to
protect the mind from internal dangers and from the threat of break-through of unacceptable impulses
What’s projection
attributing unacceptable impulses or feelings of ones to another person
Obsessional thinking and compulsive rituals
Defenses against unacceptable thoughts or unbearable feelings
what are the four phases of therapy
beginning phase (3-6 months), no structure, pay attention to client’s words and actions, identify themes, conflicts and resistances.
development of transference (seen as a process in which repetition in action) replaces event recollection - by analysing it we get how the past affect their interactions in the present
working through
- multiple insights needed to understand the nature of one's conflicts - evidence to support events that really occurred vs imagined - patient develops in-depth understanding on how their childhood events impacted them psychologically
resolution of the transference
resolve unconsious nerutoic attachment to the anlyis
symptom intensification happens
treatment focus is directed to the future
Analysis of the transference facilitates ___ ____.
memory recall
