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Psychodynamic Psychotherapies Flashcards

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What is clinical psychology concerned with?

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the study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological and behavioral disorders.

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What assumptions do psychodynamic therapies share?

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  1. ) human behavior is motivated largely by unconscious processes.
  2. ) early development has a profound effect on adult functioning.
  3. ) universal principles explain personality development and behavior.
  4. ) insight into unconscious processes is a key component of psychotherapy.
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The psychodynamic psychotherapies include …

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  1. ) Freud’s psychoanalysis
  2. ) Adler’s individual psychology
  3. ) Jung’s analytical psychotherap
  4. ) the therapeutic approaches of the object-relations theorists.
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The worldview underlying Freudian psychoanalysis has been summarized as …

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“…essentially pessimistic, deterministic, mechanistic, and reductionistic. According to Freud, human beings are determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivations, biological and instinctual needs and drives, and psychosexual events that occurred during the first five years of live” (Corey, 1977 p. 12)

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What are the 2 separate, but interrelated, theories within Freud’s Personality Theory?

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  1. ) a structural theory (i.e. drive theory)

2. ) a developmental theory

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Freud’s structural theory posits the personality with what 3 structures …

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the id, the ego, and the superego

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Id

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  • present at birth
  • consists of the person’s live and death instincts, which serve as the source of all psychic energy
  • it operates on the basis of the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification of its instinctual drives and needs in order to avoid tension.
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Ego

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  • develops around 6 months of age in response to id’s inability to gratify all of its needs
  • operates on the basis of the reality principle
  • defers gratification of the id’s instincts until an appropriate object is available in reality
  • employs secondary process thinking, which is characterized by realistic, rational thinking and planning
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What is the primary task of the ego?

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to mediate the often conflicting demands of the id and reality, and the superego (once it develops)

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Superego

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  • emerges when a child is between 4 and 5 years of age
  • represents and internalization of society’s values and standards, as conveyed to the child by parents through rewards & punishments.
  • in contrast to the ego, which postpones gratification of the id’s instincts, the superego attempts to permanently block the id’s socially unacceptable impulses
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Freud’s Developmental Theory emphasizes …

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  • the sexual drives of the id
  • and proposes that an individual’s personality is formed during childhood as the result of certain experiences that occur during five predetermined psychosexual stages of development.
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What are the 5 stages of psychosexual development in Freud’s Developmental Theory?

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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during each stage of Freud’s Developmental Theory …

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  • the id’s libido (sexual energy) is centered on a different part of the body
  • resulting in over- or under-gratification of sexual needs needs during that stage
  • this is associated with different personality outcome
  • e.g. oral needs not being met can lead to oral-dependent personality
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Another essential component of Freud’s Personality Theory is …

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anxiety

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Freud described anxiety as …

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an unpleasant feeling linked with excitement of the autonomic nervous system.

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Freud proposed the function of anxiety is …

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to alert the ego to an impending internal or external threat (i.e. to danger arising from a conflict between the id’s impulses and the demands of the superego or reality or from an actual threat in the external environment..

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When the ego is unable to ward off danger through rational, realistic means …

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it may resort to one of its defense mechanisms.

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What 2 characteristics do Freud’s defense mechanisms share?

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  • they operate on an unconscious level

- they serve to deny or distort reality

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What are Freud’s defense mechanisms?

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  • Repression
  • Reaction formation
  • Projection
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Repression

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  • most basic defense mechanism
  • underlies all other defense mechanisms
  • occurs when the id’s drives and needs are excluded from conscious awareness by maintaining them in the unconscious
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Reaction formation

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  • avoiding an anxiety-evoking impulse by expressing its opposite.
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Projection

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  • a threatening impulse is attributed to another person or external source.
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While the defense mechanisms …

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can be considered adaptive because they serve to reduce anxiety, they may lead to dysfunction behavior when they become the ego’s habitual way of dealing with danger.

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What is the Freudian view of Maladaptive Behavior?

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For Freudians, psychopathology stems from an unconscious, unresolved conflict that occurred during childhood.

  • e.g. phobias are the result of displacement of anxiety onto an object or event that is symbolic of the object or event involved in an unresolved conflict
  • e.g. depression is due to object loss coupled with anger toward the object turned inward
  • e.g. mania represents a defense against libidinal or aggressive urges that threaten to overwhelm the ego
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What is the primary goal of Freudian psychoanalytic psychotherapy?

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to reduce or eliminate pathological symptoms by bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness and integrating previously repressed material into the personality.

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What is the primary Freudian therapy technique?

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analysis

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What are the primary targets of Freudian analysis?

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client’s free associations, dreams, resistances, and transferences.

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Underlying the analysis o 4 types of client events is the assumption of …

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psychic determinism (i.e. the belief that all behaviors are meaningful and serve some psychological function)
- e.g. Freud believed that slips of the tongue (parapraxes) are not meaningless accidents but expressions of unconscious motives.
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Analysis of 4 events consists of what 4 techniques?

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Confrontation, Clarification, Interpretation, and Working Through

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Confrontation

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making statements that help the client see behavior in a new way.

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Clarification

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clarifying the client’s feelings and restating their remarks in clearer terms.

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Interpretation

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goes a step further by more explicitly connecting current behavior to unconscious processes

  • less likely to elicit anxiety and resistance
  • therefore, more effective when they address motives & conflicts close to a client’s consciousness than when they relate to material buried deep in the unconscious.
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Improvement in psychoanalysis is attributed to …

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catharsis, insight, and working through

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Catharsis

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the emotional release resulting from the recall of unconscious material

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Catharsis paves the way for …

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the client’s insight into the relationship between his/her unconscious processes and current behaviors.

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Working Through

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  • final & longest stage in psychoanalysis

- allows the client to gradually assimilate new insights into his/her personality.

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Current Status: Recent modifications to the Freudian approach include …

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  • a more collaborative, egalitarian view of the therapeutic relationship
  • and a reconceptualization of transference and countertransference.
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Regarding Transference, some experts suggest …

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it is not a distortion but, instead, …

  • the patient’s response to the therapist’s actual behavior, and
  • an attempt to imbue that behavior with personal meaning (Gil, 1982)
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Transference

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the process of projecting one’s feelings toward an important figure in your life onto someone else (esp. therapist/analyst).

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Countertransference

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the process of the therapist/analysts projecting emotions/motives from a past object onto the client.

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Similarly, countertransference is viewed …

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  • not just as the therapist’s distorted response to the patient, but
  • when recognized and managed, as a potential source of information about the patient and an important contributor to the curative process (Langs, 1982)
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In recent years, a number of brief psychodynamic therapies have been developed. As noted by Prochaska & Norcross (2003), they have several characteristics …

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  • in addition to being time limited, they target a specific interpersonal problem that is usually identified in the first session,
  • begin using interpretation early in the therapeutic relationship, and
  • emphasize the development of a strong working alliance.
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In addition, positive transference is considered …

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more important than negative transference by many practitioners of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy,

  • because it promotes a positive therapeutic relationship,
  • maximizes the client’s motivation to work toward the achievement of therapeutic goals, and
  • reduces the likelihood that progress in therapy will be slowed down by the development of a full-scale transference neurosis.
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Positive Transference

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apply enjoyable aspects of your past relationships to your relationship with your therapist (or other emotional object).

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Negative Transference

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transference of negative and hostile feelings, rather than positive ones, onto a therapist (or other emotional object).

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