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what is psychological formulation

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  • co-constructing hypothesis - origins of person’s difficulties
  • has diagnostic label but doesn’t impact treatment
  • aims to identify processes that led to and maintain problems faced by the individual
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who is Anna O or Bertha Pappenheim

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  • Freud worked with whilst under hypnosis
  • physical symptoms - weakness, paralysis
  • under hypnosis spoke on past traumas and symptoms were cured
  • behaviour influenced by unconscious
  • talking therapy
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what are Freud’s levels of consciousness

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  • conscious
  • preconscious
  • unconscious
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what is the tripartite model

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  • id, ego and superego
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what did helmoltz propose

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  • conservation of energy - not created or destroyed - transferred to one thing to another
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what did brucke propose

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all living things are energy systems

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how did Freud discuss psychic energy and the instincts

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  • psychic energy
  • personality - energy system - transformations and transference of psychic energy from one part to another shape personality
  • instincts are the source of energy in behaviour
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what is eros

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life instinct
- preservation of self and species, sexual drive

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what is thanatos

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death instinct
- self destruction, aggressive drive

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what is the id

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  • unconscious
  • present from birth
  • pleasure principle
  • selfish
  • if needs delayed id used primary process thinking
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what is the ego

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  • conscious and preconscious
  • develops around 6 months
  • reality principle
  • mediator between id and reality
  • secondary process thinking
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what is the superego

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  • conscious, preconscious and unconscious
  • social and moral standards
  • morality principle
  • what’s right and what’s wrong
  • made up of conscience and ego ideal
  • inhibits id impulses
  • can become too harsh or restrictive
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what is the oral stage

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0-2
sucking

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what is the anal stage

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2-3
retention/elimination of faeces

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what is the phallic stage

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3-6
genitals

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what is the latency stage

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6-12
sexual inhibitions

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what is the genital stage

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12+
development of adult sexuality

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when are the oedipus and electra complex

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phallic stage

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what is the oedipus complex

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  • mother as love object
  • identification
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what fixations are in the oral stage

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dependence, depression, guilt, mistrust

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what are anal fixations

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tidiness, obsessive behaviours, stubbornness

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what are phallic fixations

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  • antisocial personality, difficulties in romantic relationships, aggression
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what are latency fixations

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problems with self control

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what are genital fixations

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identity diffusion

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what are neuroses
- originate in childhood, symptoms are triggered by stress or crisis
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what is healthy development according to Freud
- passing through stages successfully - development of successful ego and superego - adequate defence mechanism
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what is neurotic development according to Freud
- frustration of sexual impulses or inhibition instincts by ego - repression - transforming frustrated sexual impulses into neurotic symptoms - inadequate defence mechanisms
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how does OCD develop according to Freud
- fear id impulses - defence mechanisms - battle between opposing forces - fixation at anal stage
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how does depression develop according to Freud
- similar to grieving - regression to oral stage - introjection of negative feelings
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what are the goals of Freud's therapy
- make unconscious conscious again - strengthen ego - make superego more humane
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what client's did Freud not work
- people with psychosis - not above age 50 - reasonable degree of education
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how did Freud's sessions run
- 4 sessions a week - 45 minutes each
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what is the free association technique
- allow mind to wonder freely and report everything even if traumatic - unconscious material becomes conscious
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what is resistance
- anything that works against the therapy - not adhering to the fundamental rule - ego protects itself from repressed id
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what is the transference technique
- clients perceive analysts as reincarnations of key figures in life - transfer onto them emotions and feelings associated with past relationship - learn about more important relationships
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what is the interpretation technique
- constructions or explanations - what has happened to clients - repressed unconscious material becomes conscious - understand id impulses
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what did Freud say dreams were
- the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious mind - function of dreams is wish fulfilment - disguised hallucinatory fulfilments of prepressed sexual infantile wishes - latent vs manifest content - dream work - complex mental process of disguise involving condensation, displacement and symbolism
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what was the wolf man case study
- Freud considered him to be 'cured' - presented with dramatic symptoms - had a dream the night before 4th birthday - dreams give insight into repressed wishes
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what are the aspects of dream analysis
distortions - reversals - condensation - symbolism
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what did Carl Jung say was wrong about Freud's approach
- that human motivation is exclusively sexual - that the unconscious mind is entirely personal and peculiar to an individual
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what are the levels of consciousness according to jung
- conscious - personal unconscious - collective unconscious
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what is the collective consciousness
- images, potentialities, predispositions that have been inherited from ancestors - never been conscious - a blueprint for life - made up of archetypes
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what are jung's archetypes
- persona - public personality - anima - feminine side in males - animus- masculine side in females - shadow - dark side of personality - self - personality as a whole
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how did jung define psychic energy
- libido and other motivating forces
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how does jung define compensation
- balance or adjust energy distributed through the psyche
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how does jung define transcendent function
- synthesising process which can remove some of the separation between conscious and unconscious
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what is the individuation of the self
- person becomes differentiated as a separate psychological individual, distinct from collective psychology - integration of unconscious and conscious into whole self
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what are the psychological attitude types according to jung
- extraversion - introversion
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what are the 4 function types according to jung
- thinking and feeling - sensation and intuition
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what is hysteria according to jung
- extreme extraversion - libido withdrawn from inner world - over concern with influence in social relationships
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what is schizophrenia according to Jung
- extreme introversion - libido withdrawn from reality - world of fantasy and archetypes
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what are jung's views on neuroses
- imbalance between conscious and unconscious - symptoms are a form of adaption created as part of individuation
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what are the goals of jung's therapy
- attain specific goals, deal with complexes, strengthen consciousness - understand own inner being and meaning in life
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how does jung's therapy run
- individual - eye to eye - 2-3 sessions a week - break after 10 weeks - not a cure just support
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what are the stages of jung's therapy
1 - confession - any secrets 2 - elucidation - interprets 3 - education - new and adaptive habits 4 - transformation - individuation, acceptance of self
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what is the analysis of transference technique
- understand projections that take place from client to therapist
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what is the active imagination technique
- get in touch with unconscious material - may use dreams to start
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what are jung's stages of dream analysis
- amplification - interpretation - assimilation
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what is amplification in dream analysis
- elaboration and clarification of dream images to establish context - direct association
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what is interpretation in dream analysis
- keep record of dreams and interpretations - dream series
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what is assimilation in dream analysis
- client and therapist make conscious sense of dreams - clients assent of therapists interpretation
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according to eysenck how many people were cured from psychotherapy
44%
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according to eysenck how many people were not cured from psychotherapy
56%
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how can we measure how effective psychotherapy is
- randomised controlled trials
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what did smith and glass find about psychotherapy
average person receiving treatment is better off than 75% untreated
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