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Psychoanalytic Therapy Flashcards

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Anal stage

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the second state of psychosexual development, when pleasure is derived from retaining and expelling feces

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Analytical psychology

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an elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion.

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Animus (anima)

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The biological and psychological aspects of masculinity and femininity, which are thought to coexist in both sexes.

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Anxiety

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A feeling of impending doom that results from repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experiences emerging to the surface of awareness. From a psychoanalytic perspective, there are three kinds of anxiety: reality, neurotic, and moral anxiety.

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Archetypes

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The images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.

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Blank screen

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An anonymous stance assumed by classical psychoanalysts aimed at fostering transference.

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Borderline personality disorder

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A disorder characterized by instability, irritability, self-destructive acts, impulsivity, and extreme mood shifts. Such people lack a sense of their own identity and do not have a deep understanding of others.

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Brief psychodynamic therapy (BPT)

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An adaptation of the principles of psychoanalytic theory and therapy aimed at treating selective disorders within a pre-established time limit.

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Classical psychoanalysis

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The traditional (Freudian) approach to psychoanalysis based on a long-term exploration of past conflicts, many of which are unconscious, and an extensive process of working through early wounds.

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Collective unconscious

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From a Jungian perspective, the deepest level of the psyche that contains an accumulation of inherited experiences.

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Compensation

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An ego-defense mechanism that consists of masking perceived weaknesses or developing certain positive traits to make up for limitations

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Contemporary psychoanalysis

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Newer formulations of psychoanalytic theory that share some core characteristics of classical analytic theory, but with different applications of techniques; extensions and adaptations of orthodox psychoanalysis.

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Countertransference

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The therapist’s unconscious emotional responses to a client that are likely to interfere with objectivity; unresolved conflicts of the therapist that are projected onto the client.

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Crisis

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According to Erikson, a turning point in life when we have the potential to move forward or to regress. At these turning points, we can either resolve our conflicts or fail to master the developmental task.

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Death instincts

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A Freudian concept that refers to a tendency of individuals to harbor an unconscious wish to die or hurt themselves or others; accounts for the aggressive drive.

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Denial-

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In denial there is an effort to suppress unpleasant reality. It consists of coping with anxiety by “closing our eyes” to the existence of anxiety-producing reality

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Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

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A blend of cognitive behavioral and psychoanalytic techniques that generally involves a minimum of one year of treatment.

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Displacement

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An ego-defense mechanism that entails redirection of some emotion from a real source to a substitute person or object.

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Dream analysis

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A technique for uncovering unconscious material and giving clients insight into some of their unresolved problems. Thera- pists participate with clients in exploring dreams and in interpreting possible meanings.

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Dream work

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The process by which the latent content of a dream is transformed into the less threatening manifest content.

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Ego

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The part of the personality that is the mediator between external reality and inner demands.

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Ego-defense mechanisms

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Intrapsychic processes that operate unconsciously to protect the person from threatening and, therefore, anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, and impulses.

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Ego psychology

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The psychosocial approach of Erik Erikson, which emphasizes the development of the ego or self at various stages of life.

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Fixation

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The condition of being arrested, or “stuck,” at one level of psychosexual development.

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Free association

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A primary technique, consisting of spontaneous and uncensored verbalization by the client, which gives clues to the nature of the client’s unconscious conflicts.

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Genital stage

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The final stage of psychosexual development, usually attained at adolescence, in which heterosexual interests and activities are generally predominant.

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Id

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The part of personality, present at birth, that is blind, demanding, and insistent. Its function is to discharge tension and return to homeostasis.

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Id psychology

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A theory stating that instincts and intrapsychic conflicts are the basic factors shaping personality development (both normal and abnormal).

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Identification

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As an ego defense, this may involve individuals identifying themselves with successful causes in the hope that they will be seen as worthwhile.

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Identity crisis

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A developmental challenge, occurring during adolescence, whereby the person seeks to establish a stable view of self and to define a place in life.

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Individuation

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The harmonious integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of personality.

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Interpretation

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A technique used to explore the meanings of free association, dreams, resistances, and transference feelings.

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Introjection

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A process of taking in the values and standards of others.

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Latency stage

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A period of psychosexual development, following the phallic stage, that is relatively calm before the storm of adolescence.

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Latent content

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Our hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears.

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Libido

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The instinctual drives of the id and the source of psychic energy; Freudian notion of the life instincts.

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Life instincts

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Instincts oriented toward growth, development, and creativity that serve the purpose of the survival of the individual and the human race.

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Maintaining the analytic frame

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Refers to a range of procedures, such as an analyst’s anonymity, regularity, and consistency of meetings, as a structure for therapy.

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Manifest content

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The dream as it appears to the dreamer.

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Moral Anxiety

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fear of one’s own conscience; people with a well-developed conscience tend to feel guilty when they do something contrary to their moral code.

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Multiple transferences

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A process whereby group members develop intense feelings for certain others in a group; an individual may “see” in others some significant figure such as a parent, life-partner, ex-lover, or boss.

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Narcissism

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Extreme self-love, as opposed to love of others. A narcissistic personality is characterized by a grandiose and exaggerated sense of self-importance and an exploitive attitude toward others, which hides a poor self-concept.

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Narcissistic personality

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Characterized by a grandiose and exaggerated sense of self-importance and an exploitive attitude toward others, which serve the function of masking a frail self-concept.

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Neurotic anxiety

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The fear that the instincts will get out of hand and cause one to do something for which one will be punished.

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Object relations

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Interpersonal relationships as they are represented intrapsychically.

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Object-relations theory

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A newer version of psychoanalytic thinking, which focuses on predictable developmental sequences in which early experiences of self shift in relation to an expanding awareness of others. It holds that individuals go through phases of autism, normal symbiosis, and separation and individuation, culminating in a state of integration.

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Oral stage

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The initial phase of psychosexual development, during which the mouth is the primary source of gratification; a time when the infant is learning to trust or mistrust the world.

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Persona

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The mask we wear, or public face we present, as a way to protect ourselves

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Phallic stage

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The third phase of psychosexual development, during which the child gains maximum gratification through direct experience with the genitals.

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Pleasure principle

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The idea that the id is driven to satisfy instinctual needs by reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure.

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Projection

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An ego-defense mechanism that involves attributing our own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and motives to others.

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy involves a shortening and simplifying of the lengthy process of psychoanalysis.

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Psychodynamics

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The interplay of opposing forces and intrapsychic conflicts that provide a basis for understanding human motivation.

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Psychosexual stages

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The Freudian chronological phases of development, beginning in infancy. Each is characterized by a primary way of gaining sensual and sexual gratification.

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Psychosocial stages

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Erikson’s turning points, from infancy through old age. Each presents psychological and social tasks that must be mastered if maturation is to proceed in a healthy fashion.

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Rationalization

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An ego-defense mechanism whereby we attempt to justify our behavior by imputing logical motives to it.

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Reaction formation

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A defense against a threatening impulse, involving actively express- ing the opposite impulse.

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Reality anxiety

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The fear of danger from the external world; the level of such anxiety is pro-proportionate to the degree of real threat.

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Reality principle

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The idea that the ego does realistic and logical thinking and formulates plans of action for satisfying needs.

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Regression

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An ego-defense mechanism whereby an individual reverts to a less mature form of behavior as a way of coping with extreme stress.

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Relational analysis

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An analytic model based on the assumption that therapy is an interactive process between client and therapist. The interpersonal analyst assumes that countertransference is a source of information about the client’s character and dynamics.

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Relational model

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A model that characterizes therapy as an interactive process between client and therapist in which countertransference provides an important source of information about the client’s character and dynamics.

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Repression

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The ego-defense mechanism whereby threatening or painful thoughts or feelings are excluded from awareness.

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Resistance

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The client’s reluctance to bring to awareness threatening unconscious material that has been repressed.

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Self psychology

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A theory that emphasizes how we use interpersonal relationships (self objects) to develop our own sense of self.

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Shadow-

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A Jungian archetype representing thoughts, feelings, and actions that we tend to disown by projecting them outward.

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Sublimation

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An ego defense that involves diverting sexual or aggressive energy into other channels that are socially acceptable

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Superego

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That aspect of personality that represents one’s moral training. It strives for perfection, not pleasure.

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Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP)

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Through this form of psychoanalytically oriented therapy, clients gain a sense of what it is like to interact more fully and flexibly within the therapy situation. They are helped to apply to the outside world what they are learning in the office.

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Transference

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The client’s unconscious shifting to the therapist of feelings and fantasies, both positive and negative, that are displacements from reactions to significant others from the client’s past.

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Transference relationship

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The transfer of feelings originally experienced in an early relationship to other important people in a person’s present environment.

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Unconscious

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That aspect of psychological functioning or of personality that houses experiences, wishes, impulses, and memories in an out-of-awareness state as a protection against anxiety.

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Working through

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A process of resolving basic conflicts that are manifested in the client’s relationship with the therapist; achieved by the repetition of interpretations and by exploring forms of resistance

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