Psychodynamic Theory

Question 1

Repression

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Banishment of unacceptable urges, wishes, or impulses to the unconscious mind

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Denial

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Refusal to accept the reality of a threatening impulse or unsafe behavior

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Rationalization

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Self-justifications for unacceptable behavior used as a form of self-deception

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Displacement

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Directing one’s unacceptable impulses toward threatening objects onto safer or less-threatening objects

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Projection

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Attributing one’s own impulses or wishes to another

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Reaction formation

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Taking the opposite stance to what one truly wishes or believes so as to keep one’s genuine impulses repressed

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Regression

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Return of behaviors associated with earlier stages of development, generally during times of stress

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Sublimation

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Channeling one’s own unacceptable impulses into more socially appropriate pursuits or activities

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Carl Jung

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developed his own psychodynamic theory called analytical psychology and believed that we not only have a personal unconscious but also inherit a collective unconscious.

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Archetypes

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Primitive images or concepts that reside in the collective unconscious

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Karen Horney

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stressed the importance of child–

parent relationships in the development of emotional problems

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Ego psychology

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Modern psychodynamic approach originated by Heinz Hartmann (1894–1970) that focuses more on the conscious strivings of the ego than on the hypothesized unconscious functions of the id