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Psychodynamic Approach Flashcards

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psychodynamic approach

main guys name?

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Sigmund Freud

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3 aims of the psychodynamic approach?

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  • study unconcious mind -> significant influence on human behaviour
  • behaviour rooted in childhood experiences
  • unconcious mind (below surface) has most influence on our personality
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what is the tripatite theory of personality?

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  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
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what is the Id about? (what principle)
when is it present?

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  • pleasure principle
  • at birth
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what is the Ego about? (what principle)
when is it present?

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  • reality principle
  • mediates btwn superego and Id.
  • around 2yrs of age
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what is the Superego about? (what principle)
when is it present?

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  • morality principle
  • around 5yrs of age
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What are defense mechanisms?

not examples. Just explain and give an example of explanation

chocolate

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  • constant disagreement btwn Id and superego -> leads to lots of anxiety
  • e.g feeling guilty for having chocolate, unsatisfied if not = anxiety
  • mind develops various methods of defending itself -> rationalism
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defense mechanisms

3 ways the mind defends itself:
plus explain

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repression - forcing stressing memory out of consious mind
denial - refusing to acknowledge some aspects of reality
displacement - transferring from the source of of distressing situations and onto a substitute target

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what was freuds belief of all children are born with a …..?

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libido

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libido?

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sexual (pleasure) urge

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what is the psychosexual stages abt?

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  • number of stages in childhood during whcih a child seeks pleasure from a diff ‘object’
  • psychologicslly healthy = successfully completed all stages
  • mental abnormality can occur if a stage isnt successfully completed. person becomes ‘fixated’ and carries on certain behaviours
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what are the psychosexual stages?
and when do they happen?

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Old Age Pentioners Like Guiness

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  • Oral stage (0-1years)
  • Anal stage (1-3yrs)
  • Phallic stage (3-5yrs)
  • Latent stage (6-puberty)
  • Genital stage ()
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what happens in oral stage + successful completion=?

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  • mouth is source of pleasure
  • tasting and sucking
  • mothers breast object of desire
  • successful completion = weaning. eating independantly
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whats the oral fixation?

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nail biting, sarcastic, smoking, overeat, critical, sensitive to rejection

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fixation meaning?

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over or under gratification in a stage

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what happens in Anal stage + successful completion=?

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  • defacation (pooping) main source of pleasure
  • successful completiopn = potty trained
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consequences of unresolved conflict:

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  • __anally retentive__ -> very tidy, stubborn, likes order and to be in control, perfectionist, obsessive
  • __anally expulsive__ -> thoughtless and messy
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what happens in Phallic stage?

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  • form of pleasure is genital area
  • __Oedipus complex__ -> boy wants mother as ‘primary love object’, and wants father out the way
  • __Electra complex__ -> girl experiences penis envy; they desire father, as penis is ‘primary love object’, and dislike mother bc she had father’s penis.
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consequences of unresolved conflict:

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  • phallic personality -> narcissistic, reckless, possibly homosexual
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what happens in Latency stage + successful completion=?

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  • early conflicts repressed
  • sexual urges sublimated into sports + other hobbies
  • focus on developing same sex friendships
  • no particular requirement for successful compeletion
  • LULL BEFORE PUBERTY!
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what happens in Genital stage + successful completion=?

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  • pubrty into adulthood
  • focus on genitals (not like phallic stage tho)
  • task to develop healthy adult relationships
  • this should happen if earlier stages have been negotiated successfully
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consequences of unresolved conflict:

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  • difficulty forming heterosexual relationships
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All of Freud’s research is case studies.
why are case studies bad?

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  • difficult to replicate
  • lacks scientific methods - hard to collect data accurately
  • researcher bias
  • can be difficult to generalise bc its based on one person (lacks population validity)

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