Psychodynamic Model

Question 1

What are the beginnings of the Psychoanalysis?

Answer 1

1. Talking cure: techniques that encourage patient talking as a way of addressing and alleviating neurotic symptoms
2. Hypnosis

Question 2

What is the psychic determinism?

Answer 2

A major assumption of Freudian theory that holds that everything one does has meaning and is goal directed

Question 3

What are the motivations in life according to the Freudian theory?

Answer 3

1. Unconscious motivations
2. Instincts
3. Life (Eros)
4. Death (Thanatos)

Question 4

What are psychosexual stages?

Answer 4

children go through stages marked by the involvement of a particular erogenous zone of the body

Question 5

What are all the psychosexual stages?

Answer 5

1. Oral: mouth most important for satisfaction
2. Anal: attention on urination and defecation (6 months to 3 years)
3. Phallic: sexual organs become source of gratification (ages 3-7)
4. Latency: lack of overt sexual activity (ages 5-12)
5. Genital: mature expression of sexuality (from adolescence into adulthood)

Question 6

What are the types of anxiety?

Answer 6

1. Reality
2. Neurotic
3. Moral

Question 7

What is reality anxiety?

Answer 7

anxiety springs from real danger in the outside world

Question 8

What is neurotic anxiety?

Answer 8

fear that id’s impulses will be expressed unchecked and lead to trouble from environment

Question 9

What is moral anxiety?

Answer 9

fear that one will not conform to the standards of the conscience

Question 10

What are the defense mechanisms?

Answer 10

1. Repression
2. Fixation
3. Regression
4. Reaction formation