Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies Flashcards

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Intrapsychic conflict refers to

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Conflict between different aspects of the self that hold opposing perceptions or emotions, one or more of which is out of awareness

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Symptoms are often seen as an expression of

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Inner conflict

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Freud was exposed to ___ work on ____

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Charcots work

Hypnosis

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Hypnosis could

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Induce and intensify hysterical symptoms and lead to their resolution

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Breuer and Freud argued that emotions related to trauma remained ___

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unconscious

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Catharsis refers to

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the release of emotions associated with painful experience that had not been discharged

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Hypnosis was replaced by ___ ____

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free association

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Basic sexual feelings according to freud are present since

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early infancy

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thinking and action are fueled by ____ according to freud

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libido

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once that active energy was activated

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it had to be discharged to restore equilibrium

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the breast becomes an object invested with ___ ___

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psychic energy

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pleasure principle refers to

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our psychological push to repeat experiences that have become linked with tension reduction

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Drive theory concepts

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eros and thanatos

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According to Freud’s Drive theory, libidinal energies seek

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gratification and the preservation of the species

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According to Freuds Drive theory, ego seeks preservation of ___

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ndividual

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What’s the developmental sequence of libidinal drives

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oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital

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psychosexual development

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psychological development is linked to the biological process of sexual development from infancy to adolescence

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Oral duration

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birth- middle of second year

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19
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Anal duration

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2.5-3.5

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phalic duration

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latent duration

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genital

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12-adulthood

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Major development in oral stage

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weening off of breast feeding

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anal major development

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toilet training

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anal major development
toilet training
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Phallic development
resolving oedipous/electra complex
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Latency major development
Developing defense mechanisms
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Genital major development
reaching full sexual maturity
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Topographical theory of the mind
Unconscious, subconscious, unconscious
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unconscious refers to
Ideas, drives, emotions, fantasies and memories out of perception outside conscious control they are at the root of neurotic symptoms
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Preconscious/subconscious
Intermediate position between conscious and unconscious
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The ego is free floating in which levels
All of them
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What's in the conscious?
Thoughts or motives that we are aware of and remember
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What's in the preconscious
Thoughts or motives blocked form normal awearness eg. feelings of hunger, thoughts of friends you need to contact
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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
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Basic mood develops during
the first year
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confident expectancy
a mood that can emerge after a happy first year in which baby's needs are met
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Fixation occurs when
aspects of the personality get stuck at the developmental moment in which a traumatic event or unresolved conflict occurred
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Regression
The person reverts to earlier forms of behavior in response to stress
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Enactment
form of action memory in which memories of sequences of troublesome experiences are replayed in action
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Structural model
ego, id, superego
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Id
Primitive impulses that are the ultimate motives for our behaviors It has no time dimension
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Most common symptom of neurosis
Anxiety
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Major function of the ego is to
protect the mind from internal dangers and from the threat of break-through of unacceptable impulses
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What's projection
attributing unacceptable impulses or feelings of ones to another person
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Obsessional thinking and compulsive rituals
Defenses against unacceptable thoughts or unbearable feelings
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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
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Analysis of the transference facilitates ___ ____.
memory recall