Psychoanalytic Flashcards
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What are the psychoanalytic philosophies?
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- Unconscious motives & conflicts central in present behaviour
- Early development important b/c later personality problems rooted in repressed childhood conflicts
2
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What are the psychoanalytic goals?
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- Make the unconscious conscious
- Reconstruct basic personality
- Assist clients in reliving earlier experiences & working thru repressed conflicts
- Achieve intellectual & emotional awareness
3
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What are the psychoanalytic techniques?
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- Interpretation
- Dream analysis
- Free association
- Analysis of resistance; of transference
- Countertransference
Designed to help clients gain access to unconscious conflicts, leads to insight & eventual assimilation of new material by ego
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What are the psychoanalytic key concepts?
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- Normal personality development based on successful resolution of psychosexual stages of development
- Faulty personality development is result of inadequate resolution of specific stage
- Anxiety is result of repression of basic conflicts
- Current behaviour based on unconscious processes
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What is the psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship like?
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- Classical analyst remains anonymous & clients develop projections toward therapist
- Focus on reducing resistances that develop in working w/ transference
- Analyst makes interpretations to teach clients meaning of current behaviour as it relates to the past
- Contemporary relational psychoanalytic therapy: relationship is central and emphasis given to here & now dimensions of relationship
