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Psychodynamic Flashcards

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3 levels of awareness

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Conscious - attention / thought
Preconscious - thoughts / experiences
Unconscious - personality / prot from harm

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3 components of personality

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ID
Ego
Superego

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ID

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Selfish - emotional
Pleasure principle
Unconscious
Birth - 18 months

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Ego

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Balances ID + superego
Rational principle
Conscious
18 months - 3 years

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Superego

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Moral guide from parental / societal values
Morality Principle
Unconscious
3-6 years

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Psychodynamic treatment - psychoanalysis

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Aims to release repressed emotions
Cure people by gaining insight to inner conflicts
Unconscious conflicts becoming conscious
Free association - stating everything that comes to mind

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Psychosexual stages

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital

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Oral

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Environmental interaction through mouth
Eating / biting / sucking
0-1 yrs

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Anal

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Mastery of personality - now control of muscles
Toilet training
1.5 - 2.5 years

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Phallic

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Fixation on sexuality - development of morals
Oedipus - desire sex w mother - resent father (castration)
Electra - girls preggers father - penis envy
5-7yrs

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Latent

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Quieted libido
Intellectual development
7 - puberty

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Genital

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Sexual maturity
Develop emotionally + socially to fulfil libido in acceptable way

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Ego defence mechanisms

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Denial - ego refuses to accept reality
Displacement - strong emotion expressed neutral object
Repression - hide strong emotions in unconscious

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Strengths of psychodynamic approach

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Nomothetic
RW practical app - psychoanalysis

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Weaknesses of psychodynamic approach

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  • Alpha bias
  • Psychic determinism
  • Lack of scientific methodology
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16
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De Maat

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Psychotherapy is effective therapeutic intervention

17
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Freud - Hans

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Fear of horses - big pps
Black harness - resemble father’s moustache
Phobia to horses due to this - oedipus complex

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