Psychodynamic Perspective

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➢ focuses on unconscious motives and conflicts in the search for the roots of behavior
➢ depends heavily on the analysis of past experience

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psychodynamic perspective

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freud’s inspo

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Jean Charcot and Josef Breuer

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A major assumption of Freudian theory, [ ], holds that everything we do has meaning and purpose and is goal directed.

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psychic determinism

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the goal of therapy in this perspective

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to make the unconscious conscious

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The energy that makes the human machine function is provided by two sets of instincts:

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the life instinct (eros) and the death instinct (thanatos)

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three basic structures of the mind

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id, ego, superego

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• pleasure principle
• completely unconscious
• amoral and primitive

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id

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• reality principle
• decision-making branch of personality

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ego

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▪ moralistic and idealistic principles
▪ the conscience (what you should not do) — guilt
▪ the ego-ideal (what you should do) ———- inferiority
* morality principle

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superego

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psychosexual developmental stages

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oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital

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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.

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maturity

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the circumstances that give rise to the formation of the ego, and later the superego, produce the painful affective experience [ ]

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anxiety

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▪ apprehension about an unknown danger.
▪ originates from id impulses.

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neurotic anxiety

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▪ stems from the conflict between the ego and the superego.
▪ could result from fear of being morally wrong or failure to be morally right

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moral anxiety

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▪ objective anxiety
▪ closely related to actual fear.
▪ dangers in the real world

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normal anxiety

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total understanding of the unconscious determinants of those irrational feelings, thoughts, or behaviors that are
producing one’s personal misery.

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insight

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a careful and repeated examination of how one’s conflicts and defenses have operated in many different areas of life.

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working through process

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a cardinal rule in psychoanalysis; the patient must say anything and everything that comes to mind.

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free association

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Dreams are seen as [ ] that often provide, like free associations, important clues to childhood wishes and feelings.

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symbolic wish fulfillments

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is what actually happens during the dream

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manifest content

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symbolic meaning of a dream

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latent content

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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.

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mistakes of everyday life

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Defined as any client action or behavior that prevents insight or prevents bringing unconscious material into consciousness.

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resistance

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• 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.

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transference

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from the psychoanalyst’s perspective, [ ] is the method by which the unconscious meaning of thoughts and behavior is revealed.

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interpretation

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Ego analysts held that

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classical psychoanalysis overemphasized unconscious and instinctual determinants

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adaptive “conflict-free” functions of the ego

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memory, learning, perception, etc.

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ego analysis prefer [ ] goals rather than reconstructive goals

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reeducative

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Focuses more on [ ] than on a massive examination and reinstatement of the past.

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contemporary problems in living

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ego analysis emphasizes the importance of building the patient’s trust through [ ] in the therapy relationship.

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reparenting

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• the most empirically supported of all psychodynamic therapies
• appears to be a worthy alternative form of psychological treatment for major depressive disorder.

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interpersonal psychotherapy

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focus of interpersonal psychotherapy

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connection between onset of problems and current interpersonal problems.

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psychoanalysis assumes that…

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adaptive behavior will occur once insight is achieved by the working-through process.

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one of the chief methods used by psychodynamic clinicians to facilitate patient insight is the

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interpretation of transference

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what seems to be responsible for positive outcomes that sometimes follow psychodynamic psychotherapy?

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• quality and strength of therapeutic alliance
• early parental histories