Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Flashcards
A one person intrapsychic model where the psychotherapist acts as a blank slate and listens for unconscious conflicts and motivations that underlie repetitive, maladaptive patterns of behavior
Classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory
Treat therapy as a two person field: unconscious intrapsychic, and relationship interactions are used to shed light on interpersonal patterns that are troubling the client
modern psychoanalytic approaches:
examples : ego psychology, object, relations, self psychology, and relational psychoanalysis
Refers to approaches that emphasize unconscious behavior patterns, and use insight as a primary therapeutic tool for psychological change
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
The hypothesis that repression of early childhood sexual abuse caused hysteria
Seduction hypothesis
Other names for the dynamic approach
Drive theory and instinct theory
T or F: in dynamic approach, Freud posits that Mento or psychic energy fills, and energizes humans
True
defined as energy as associated with life and sexual instincts
Eros
defined as externally and internally, directed aggression
Thanatos
The psychoanalytic mind is divided into three related regions, also known as the topographical model
The unconscious mind, the preconscious and the conscious
what is the purpose of psychoanalysis?
To make the unconscious conscious
Review freud’s psychosexual stages of development
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital
designed to ward off unpleasant, anxiety feelings associated with internal conflicts among the id, super ego, and reality
Defense mechanisms
Patient may believe it’s dangerous to express aggression, a.k.a. emotion, so the opposite behavior is expressed instead
Reaction formation
when the aim of sexual or aggressive impulses is shifted from a dangerous person to a less dangerous person
Displacement
Occurs when clients use excessive explanations to justify their behavior
Rationalization
Occurs when sexual or aggressive energy is channeled into positive loving or vocational activities
sublimation
uses attachment theory and attachment styles as a theoretical foundation for psychodynamic psychotherapy
Attachment informed psychotherapy
this makes up the wish the threat and the defensive compromise
A conflict based triangle of insight
Makes up past relationships, transference, and current relationships
The transference triangle of insight
T/F: psychoanalytic approaches are often less symptom or diagnose focus
True; seek to facilitate client insight and improve interpersonal relationships
An affectional tie, binding together in space and overtime, that one person or animal forms with another specific one
Attachment
Is operationally defined and achieved when mothers fairly consistently respond promptly to infant crying when mothers are sensitively inappropriately, responsive to infant signals of desire for contact in general and the manner in which the mother then handles the baby
Secure attachment or type B
Is operationally defined as the failure of the infant to cry when separated from the parent and the infant, actively avoiding and disregarding the parent when reunited
avoidant or type a
Define as the guardedness or upset, even prior to separation from the parent, with little exploration being demonstrated
ambivalent or resistant or type C
