Psychodynamic: 1st Wave Flashcards
Key Names
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl Jung (Collective Unconscious)
- Alfred Adler (Positive Psychology)
Melanie Klein (Object Relations)
Attachment:
John Bowlby
Mary Ainsworth (Strange situation experiment, 3 attachment styles)
Mary Main (Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment, Adult Attachment Interview)
Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic Key Terms
- Free Association
- Transference
- Counter-transference
- Unconscious
- Personality comes from childhood
Psychoanalytic Goals of Therapy
- Make the unconscious conscious
- Allow transference you happen
- Personality reconstruction
- Have emotional awareness and be able to have the ego assimilate new info
Types of Defense Mechanisms
Intellectualizing: thinking about something threatening while keeping emotional distance from the feelings that come from it
Projection: attributing a threatening feeling or motive to another person
Reaction formation: denying a threatening feeling and saying you feel the opposite
Drive Theory
Oral (Birth-18 months)
- oral pleasure and fixation
Anal (18m-3 yrs)
- Anal retentive vs expulsive
Control Phallic (3-6) - Oedipus Complex
Control Latency (6 yrs - puberty) - sexuality is repressed to focus on other things
Control Genital (puberty onward) - adult sexuality
Ego Psychology
Comes from Structural theory
Id: Unconscious, Pleasure principle
Ego: Mediates wants and reality
Superego: Moral consciousness, can become harsh and rigid
Carl Jung
Mind has 3 parts:
Ego
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
- Archetypes: The Persona, The Shadow, The Anima/Animus, The Self
Jung Goals of Therapy / Therapist Role
- Free Association
- Dream Analysis
- Symbol Analysis
Alfred Adler
- Positive Psychology
- Superiority/Inferiority Complex
- Striving
- Discuss client’s purpose
Object Relations
Melanie Klein
- Object is the target of all relational needs: supersedes all other drives, actual people or objects
- Countertransference (positive and negative) and transference are also valued here. Catch maladaptive patterns through negative countertransference
Object Relations Goals of Therapy
- Confrontation then interpretation
“I notice this pattern happening” - Create very secure holding environment where maladaptive patterns can happen
-Create emotionally corrective experience - do this by not going along with their pattern and discussing the pattern - Very clear line of questioning
- Culture-bound
Attachment Theory
John Bowlby
- Predict what actions will increase possibility of maintaining proximity to attachment figures
Mary Ainsworth
- Strange Situation Experiment, 3 Attachment Styles
Mary Main
- Disorganized/Disoriented Attachment
- Adult Attachment Interview
TLDP
Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
20-25 sessions
Cyclical maladaptive patterns
Provide clients w/ new experiences and corrective emotional moments to help break free of negative beliefs and cycles
