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Psychoanalysis

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Theory of personality emphasized unconscious determinants of behavior, sexual and aggressive drives and childhood experiences influence on personality.

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Free association

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Psychoanalytic technique in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelings, and mental images that arise, revealing unconscious thoughts and emotions.

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Unconscious

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Describes thoughts feeling wishes and drives that are operating below the level of consciousness.

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Id

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Irrational component of personality that seeks immediate satisfaction of instinctual drives.

Ruled by pleasure principle

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Eros

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Self preservation instinct

Biological urges

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Thanatos

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Death instinct, aggressive, destructive actions

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Ego

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Partly conscious rational component of personality that regulated thoughts and behavior and is most in touch with demands of world.

Reality principle

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Superego

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Partly conscious, self evaluative and moralistic component of personality.

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Ego defense mechanism

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Unconscious distortions of thoughts.

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Displacement

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Shifting the target of emotional urge to a substitute target that is less threatening and dangerous.

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Sublimation

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Involves redirecting sexual urges toward productive socially acceptable non sexual activities.

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Rationalization

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Justifying ones actions or feelings with socially acceptable explanations rather than consciously acknowledging ones true motives.

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Regression

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Retreating to a behavior pattern characteristic of an earlier stage of development.

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Projection

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The attributions of ones own unacceptable urges or qualities to others.

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Reaction formation

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Thinking or behaving in a way that is the extreme opposite of unacceptable urges or impulses.

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Psychosexual stages

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0-1: Oral
1-3: Anal
3-6: Phallic
7-11: Latency
Adolescence: Genital
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Personality

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Relatively consistent pattern of behavior, thinking, and feeling.

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