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