Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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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

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Classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory

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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

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modern psychoanalytic approaches:

examples : ego psychology, object, relations, self psychology, and relational psychoanalysis

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Refers to approaches that emphasize unconscious behavior patterns, and use insight as a primary therapeutic tool for psychological change

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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The hypothesis that repression of early childhood sexual abuse caused hysteria

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Seduction hypothesis

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Other names for the dynamic approach

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Drive theory and instinct theory

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T or F: in dynamic approach, Freud posits that Mento or psychic energy fills, and energizes humans

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True

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defined as energy as associated with life and sexual instincts

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Eros

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defined as externally and internally, directed aggression

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Thanatos

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The psychoanalytic mind is divided into three related regions, also known as the topographical model

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The unconscious mind, the preconscious and the conscious

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what is the purpose of psychoanalysis?

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To make the unconscious conscious

Question 11

Review freud’s psychosexual stages of development

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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designed to ward off unpleasant, anxiety feelings associated with internal conflicts among the id, super ego, and reality

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Defense mechanisms

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Patient may believe it’s dangerous to express aggression, a.k.a. emotion, so the opposite behavior is expressed instead

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Reaction formation

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when the aim of sexual or aggressive impulses is shifted from a dangerous person to a less dangerous person

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Displacement

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Occurs when clients use excessive explanations to justify their behavior

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Rationalization

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Occurs when sexual or aggressive energy is channeled into positive loving or vocational activities

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sublimation

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uses attachment theory and attachment styles as a theoretical foundation for psychodynamic psychotherapy

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Attachment informed psychotherapy

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this makes up the wish the threat and the defensive compromise

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A conflict based triangle of insight

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Makes up past relationships, transference, and current relationships

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The transference triangle of insight

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T/F: psychoanalytic approaches are often less symptom or diagnose focus

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True; seek to facilitate client insight and improve interpersonal relationships

Question 21

An affectional tie, binding together in space and overtime, that one person or animal forms with another specific one

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Attachment

Question 22

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

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Secure attachment or type B

Question 23

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

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avoidant or type a

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Define as the guardedness or upset, even prior to separation from the parent, with little exploration being demonstrated

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ambivalent or resistant or type C