Psychodynamics I&II Flashcards
Psychosexual stages of development
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
Oral phase
Birth to 1 1/2 yrs
Sucking/dependent
Anal phase
1 1/2 to 3 yrs
Crawling, exploring
NO
Potty training
Phallic phase
3 to 5/6 yrs
Curious about sex differences–close to parent of opposite sex
Latency phase
6- adolescent
Girls with girls/guys with guys
Genital phase
Adolescent/adult on
Capacity for true intimacy
adult sexual stage
Level I psychotic mechanisms
Common in healthy ind. before age 5
Delusional projection
Psychotic denial
Distortion
Delusional projection
FBI out to get me–delusions about external reality, usually of persecutory type
Psychotic denial
Denial of external reality
I am jesus–change who you are b/c you don’t like the true you
Distortion
Reshaping reality to suit inner needs
Don’t see reality as it truly is
Often unrealistic megalomaniacal beliefs and grandiose
Level II immature mechanisms
Common in healthy people 3-15
Projection
Somatization
Acting out
Splitting
Projection
If person rude they will accuse others of being rude instead of thinking they are
Somatization
Hypochondriac
My husband cheated, i saw it, so now I’m blind
Turning an unacceptable impulse or feeling into complaints of pain, fear or anger
Acting out
DO instead of feel
I don’t like you so instead of just feeling the hate i will hit you
Splitting
Seeing people or events as either ALL good or ALL bad and will quickly switch btw the two
Borderline personality disorder
Level III neurotic defenses
Common in healthy ind. 3-90
Reaction to stress or neurotic disorder
Denial Displacement Dissociation Identification Intellectualization Isolation of affect Rationalization Reaction formation Regression Undoing
Denial
Unable to accept intolerable facts about reality
You have cancer but refuse to follow-up–know what cancer does but don’t care to followup
Displacement
Redirection of feelings
Im pissed at my boss, but don’t do anything to my boss, instead i kick the trash can
Dissociation
Temporary but drastic modification of ones character or of one’s sense of personal identity to avoid emotional distress
You have cancer–what cancer?
Identification
Unconscious patterning of one’s behavior after a powerful, influential person
I want to be like you
Stockholm syndrome –ID with aggressor
Intellectualization
Thinking used to avoid feelings
Flight into reason
Father has MI but come in asking about labs and imaging instead of emotionally feeling concerned about father
Isolation of affect
Unable to deal with reality —something bad happening and you feel no emotion
Guy kills kid–going to jail and doesn’t care