Psychodynamic approaches 2 Flashcards
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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Goal
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- insight, the bringing into conscious awareness of formerly unconscious material
- Sufficient for curing psychological disorders.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Tools (interpretation)
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- Interpretation, suggesting hidden
meanings to patients’ accounts of their lives. - Psychoanalysts must overcome resistance of
patient.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Tools (neutrality)
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- Neutrality, a distant stance to minimise
therapist’s personal influence. - Facilitates transference, whereby patients
transfer their feelings about people in their life
onto the analyst.
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Psychoanalytic Therapy: Tools
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- Analysts use the transference to aid
interpretations, must avoid reacting as the real figure would. - Must also be on guard for countertransference,
where their own feelings influence their responses.
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(Counter)transference - transference
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- Idealization: You are the best.
- Invitation to rescue: Only you can help me.
- Acting the helpless child.
- Naughty behaviour: being late, not turning up, lack of adherence.
- Seeking approval.
- Invitation to intimacy: eliciting personal information, divulging personal information.
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(Counter)transference - counter
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- Inappropriately intense response.
- Preoccupation.
- Loss of objectivity.
- Typical: Rescue fantasy.
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Malan triangles
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Developed to represent transference in psychotherapy
8
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Three windows into the unconscious
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- free association
- slips of the tongue
- dreams
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free association
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- the client verbalises whatever comes to mind without editing or censoring the stream of thought
- goal is to reveal aspects of the unconscious mind, unconscious desires
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slips of the tongue: what is Psychic Determinism?
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- Freud: the little ‘accidents’ of daily life are often expressions of the motivated unconscious, (such as calling someone by the wrong name)
- Nothing actually happens by accident—instead, there is a reason behind every act, thought
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slips of the tongue: Bushisms
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silly statements attributed to George Bush
i.e. “First, I’d like to spank all the teachers…”
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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- Dream analysis - the Royal Road to the
unconscious. - Manifest content. Latent content. Relaxation of censorship.
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What is dream work
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the process by which the brain censors dreams
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Evaluating Freud: influence
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- Some would argue he is more influential outside of psychology
- 86% of classes on psychoanalysis are taught outside of psychology departments
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Evaluating Freud: unscientific
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A rich source of theorizing – but weak on science
