Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies

Question 1

Intrapsychic conflict refers to

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Symptoms are often seen as an expression of

Answer 2

Inner conflict

Question 3

Freud was exposed to ___ work on ____

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Charcots work

Hypnosis

Question 4

Hypnosis could

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Induce and intensify hysterical symptoms and lead to their resolution

Question 5

Breuer and Freud argued that emotions related to trauma remained ___

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unconscious

Question 6

Catharsis refers to

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

Question 7

Hypnosis was replaced by ___ ____

Answer 7

free association

Question 8

Basic sexual feelings according to freud are present since

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early infancy

Question 9

thinking and action are fueled by ____ according to freud

Answer 9

libido

Question 10

once that active energy was activated

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it had to be discharged to restore equilibrium

Question 11

the breast becomes an object invested with ___ ___

Answer 11

psychic energy

Question 12

pleasure principle refers to

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

Question 13

Drive theory concepts

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eros and thanatos

Question 14

According to Freud’s Drive theory, libidinal energies seek

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gratification and the preservation of the species

Question 15

According to Freuds Drive theory, ego seeks preservation of ___

Answer 15

ndividual

Question 16

What’s the developmental sequence of libidinal drives

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oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital

Question 17

psychosexual development

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

Question 18

Oral duration

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birth- middle of second year

Question 19

Anal duration

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2.5-3.5

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phalic duration

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3.4-6

Question 21

latent duration

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6-12

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genital

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12-adulthood

Question 23

Major development in oral stage

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weening off of breast feeding

Question 24

anal major development

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toilet training

Question 24

anal major development

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toilet training

Question 25

Phallic development

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resolving oedipous/electra complex

Question 26

Latency major development

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Developing defense mechanisms

Question 27

Genital major development

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reaching full sexual maturity

Question 28

Topographical theory of the mind

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Unconscious, subconscious, unconscious

Question 29

unconscious refers to

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Ideas, drives, emotions, fantasies and memories out of perception

outside conscious control

they are at the root of neurotic symptoms

Question 30

Preconscious/subconscious

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Intermediate position between conscious and unconscious

Question 31

The ego is free floating in which levels

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All of them

Question 32

What’s in the conscious?

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Thoughts or motives that we are aware of and remember

Question 33

What’s in the preconscious

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Thoughts or motives blocked form normal awearness

eg. feelings of hunger, thoughts of friends you need to contact

Question 34

What’s in the unconscious

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Primitive instinctual motives, anxiety thoughts and memories blocked from awareness

eg. sexual desires, aggressive impulses or irrational thoughts and feelings

Question 35

Basic mood develops during

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the first year

Question 36

confident expectancy

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a mood that can emerge after a happy first year in which baby’s needs are met

Question 37

Fixation occurs when

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aspects of the personality get stuck at the developmental moment in which a traumatic event or unresolved conflict occurred

Question 38

Regression

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The person reverts to earlier forms of behavior in response to stress

Question 39

Enactment

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form of action memory in which memories of sequences of troublesome experiences are replayed in action

Question 40

Structural model

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ego, id, superego

Question 41

Id

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Primitive impulses that are the ultimate motives for our behaviors

It has no time dimension

Question 42

Most common symptom of neurosis

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Anxiety

Question 43

Major function of the ego is to

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protect the mind from internal dangers and from the threat of break-through of unacceptable impulses

Question 44

What’s projection

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attributing unacceptable impulses or feelings of ones to another person

Question 45

Obsessional thinking and compulsive rituals

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Defenses against unacceptable thoughts or unbearable feelings

Question 46

what are the four phases of therapy

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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

Question 47

Analysis of the transference facilitates ___ ____.

Answer 47

memory recall