Psychodynamic Perspective Flashcards
➢ focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts in the search for the roots of behavior
➢ depends heavily on the analysis of past experience
psychodynamic perspective
freud’s inspo
Jean Charcot and Josef Breuer
A major assumption of Freudian theory, [ ], holds that everything we do has meaning and purpose and is goal directed.
psychic determinism
the goal of therapy in this perspective
to make the unconscious conscious
The energy that makes the human machine function is provided by two sets of instincts:
the life instinct (eros) and the death instinct (thanatos)
three basic structures of the mind
id, ego, superego
- pleasure principle
- completely unconscious
- amoral and primitive
id
- reality principle
- decision-making branch of personality
ego
▪ moralistic and idealistic principles
▪ the conscience (what you should not do) — guilt
▪ the ego-ideal (what you should do) ———- inferiority
* morality principle
superego
psychosexual developmental stages
oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital
a stage attained after a person has passed through the earlier developmental periods in an ideal manner; assuming that the sexual impulses have been handled successfully by the ego.
maturity
the circumstances that give rise to the formation of the ego, and later the superego, produce the painful affective experience [ ]
anxiety
▪ apprehension about an unknown danger.
▪ originates from id impulses.
neurotic anxiety
▪ stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego.
▪ could result from fear of being morally wrong or failure to be morally right
moral anxiety
▪ objective anxiety
▪ closely related to actual fear.
▪ dangers in the real world
normal anxiety
total understanding of the unconscious determinants of those irrational feelings, thoughts, or behaviors that are
producing one’s personal misery.
insight
a careful and repeated examination of how one’s conflicts and defenses have operated in many different areas of life.
working through process
a cardinal rule in psychoanalysis; the patient must say anything and everything that comes to mind.
free association
Dreams are seen as [ ] that often provide, like free associations, important clues to childhood wishes and feelings.
symbolic wish fulfillments
is what actually happens during the dream
manifest content
symbolic meaning of a dream
latent content
Another important method for gaining access to the unconscious through little [ ] – they are like dreams in the sense that sexual and aggressive urges receive partial
gratification even though they interfere with our lives in minor ways.
mistakes of everyday life
Defined as any client action or behavior that prevents insight or prevents bringing unconscious material into consciousness.
resistance
- A key phenomenon in psychoanalytic therapy.
- It occurs when the patient reacts to the therapist as if the latter represented some important figure out of childhood.
transference
