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Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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2 primacy instincts that drives humans

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Sex and Aggression

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Instincts is rooted in the _____ and largely govern our behavior

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Unconscious

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Refers to those forces that motivate people

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Dynamics of personality

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Levels of Mental Life

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Consciousness
Preconscious
Unconscious

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Driving forces in personality

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Instincts

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4 basic characteristics of instincts

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source
aim
impetus
object

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Instinctual drives are initiated when people want to seek _____ and achieve a state of _____

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Gratification
Equilibrium

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Is the region of the body in a state of excitation or tension

In some bodily deficit

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Source

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Is to seek pleasure by removing that excitation or reducing the tension

Gratification of the need

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Aim

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A drive’s _____ is the amount of force it exerts

that propels the person to act

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Impetus

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The person or thing that serve as the means through which the aim is satisfied

Through which the instinct achieve its aim

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Object

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Two types of instincts under Freud

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Life Instinct (Eros)
Death Instinct ( Thanatos)

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Eros:Sex
Thanatos:

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Aggression

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Psychic and pleasurable feelings associated with the satisfaction of life instincts

Energy

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Libido

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The goal of life is _____

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Death

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The object of the sexual instinct is any person or thing that brings _____

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Sexual pleasure

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Self-centeredness possess by all infants

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Primary Narcissism

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Self-centeredness experienced by adolescence, not universal to all

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Secondary Narcissism

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Second manifestation of eros.

It is when people invest their libido on an object or person other than themselves

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Love

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Receiving sexual pleasure from inflicting pain on another

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Sadism

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Receiving sexual pleasure from painful experiences

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Masochism

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A destructive instinct that aims to return a person to an inorganic state, usually directed agains other people

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Aggression

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Only _____ feels anxiety

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Ego

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Anxiety that stems from ego’s relation with the id

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Neurotic anxiety

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Anxiety that stems from ego’s relation with the id

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Neurotic anxiety

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Anxiety that is similar to guilt
Ego’s relationship with superego

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Moral Anxiety

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Anxiety that is similar to fear
Ego’s relationship with the real world

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Realistic Anxiety

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Includes drives and instincts that are beyond awareness but that motivate most human behaviors

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Unconscious

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Unconscious processes originate from two sources:

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Repression
Phylogenetic endowment

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The blocking out of anxiety-filled experiences

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Repression

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The inherited experiences that lie beyond an individual’s personal experience

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Phylogenetic endowment

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Contains images that are not in awareness but can become conscious either quite easily or with some level of difficulty

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Preconscious

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Plays relatively minor role in Freudian theory

Stem from either the perception of external stimuli or from the unconscious and preconscious after the have evaded censorship

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Conscious

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Serves as an ego-preserving mechanism because it signals us that danger is at hand

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Anxiety

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3 regions of the mind

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Id
Ego
Superego

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Primary process that is completely unconscious and contains our basic instincts

Seething cauldron: that contains painful and primitive
urges and desires.

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Id

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Id serves the ________ principle

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Pleasure

37
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Secondary process that is responsible for reconciling the unrealistic demands of the Id and the Superego

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Ego

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Ego is governed by the _____ principle

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Reality

39
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Represents the moral and ideal aspects of personality

Describes the internalization of societal values.

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Superego

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Superego serves the _____ principle

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Moralistic/Idealistic

41
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Two sub-system of super ego

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Conscience
Ego-Ideal

42
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Result from the punishment for improper behavior

Tell us what we should not do

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Conscience

43
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Stems from rewards for socially acceptable behavior

Tell us what we should do

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Ego-Ideal

44
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Operate to protect the ego against the pain of anxiety

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Defense Mechanisms

45
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Involves forcing unwanted, anxiety-loaded experiences into the unconscious.

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Repression

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For example: A woman who hated her father might repress her hostility and anger and thus be totally unaware of her actual feelings.

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Repression

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Refers to a person’s refusal to perceive an unpleasant event in external reality.

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Denial

48
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Refers to the unconscious attempt to
obtain gratification for id impulses by shifting them to substitute objects

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Displacement

49
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Redirecting unwanted urges onto other objects or people in order to disguise the original impulse

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Displacement

50
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Most basic of all defense mechanism

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Repression

51
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For example: A young boy who is insulted by a strong teenager may not be able to retaliate for fear that the adolescent might physically hurt him. Instead, he may vent his anger on someone smaller or weaker than he is.

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Displacement

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For example: A young boy who is insulted by a strong teenager may not be able to retaliate for fear that the adolescent might physically hurt him. Instead, he may vent his anger on someone smaller or weaker than he is.

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Displacement

52
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When psychic energy is blocked at one stage of development, making psychological change difficult.

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Fixation

53
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People who continually derive pleasure from eating, smoking or
talking may have an ____ fixation

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Oral

54
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Those who are obsessed with
neatness, and orderliness may possess an _____ fixation.

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Anal

55
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Occur whenever a person reverts to earlier, more infantile modes of behavior.

There is movement from mature behavior to immature behavior.

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Regression

56
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For example: A 6- year-old boy might start sucking his thumb or cling to
his mother on the first day of school.

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Regression

57
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The justification of behavior through the use of plausible, but inaccurate excuses.

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Rationalization

58
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For example: A young athlete, dropped from the team because of lack of ability, comes to the conclusion that he did not really want to be on the team because it is going to lose so many games.

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Rationalization

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Seeing in others those unacceptable feelings or behaviors that actually reside in one’s own unconscious.

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Projection

60
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For example: A girl who hates her mother may convinced that her
mother hates her.
A students who cheat on examinations may continually assert that other students get high grades because they cheated.

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Projection

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For example: A girl who hates her mother may convinced that her
mother hates her.
A students who cheat on examinations may continually assert that other students get high grades because they cheated.

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Projection

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Take place when people incorporate positive qualities of another person into their own ego to reduce feelings of inferiority.

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Introjections

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Ex. An adolescent may adopt mannerisms, values or lifestyle of a
movie star. Such gives the adolescent an inflated sense of self-
worth and keeps feelings of inferiority to a minimum.

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Introjections

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Process that allows individuals to protect themselves against unbearable pain by dissociating
between one thoughts and feelings.

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Intellectualization

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For example: A woman may conjure up an elaborate rationale to explain
the death of her husband. By citing reasons and focusing on the logic of
her argument, she may avoid, or a while at least, the tremendous pain
associated with such traumatic experience.

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Intellectualization

66
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Sometimes a person who thinks or acts on an undesirable
impulse makes amends by performing some action that nullifies
the undesirable one.

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Undoing

67
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By performing the ______, the person is convinced that the wrong he or she committed has rectified

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Undoing

68
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For example: A boy who has continual thoughts about masturbation and believes that they are evil may wash his hands frequently as a means of
cleansing himself.

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Undoing

69
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4 psychosexual development

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latent
Genital

70
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Oral, Anal, and Phallic stages are part of what period?

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Infantile period

71
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An infant is primarily motivated to receive pleasure through the mouth.

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Oral phase

72
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2nd year of life a child goes through an _____ phase

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Anal

73
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Children receive satisfaction by destroying or losing objects.

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Early Anal Period

74
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They sometimes take a friendly interest toward their feces, an interest that stems from the erotic pleasure of defecating.

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Late Anal Period

75
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If parents are too punitive during
the anal phase, the child may adopt an _____

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Anal Triad

76
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Anal triad is consist of

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Orderliness
Stinginess
Obstinacy

77
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3-4 years of age,
Stage when the genital area becomes the leading erogenous zone.

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Phallic

78
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Which they have sexual feelings for one parent and
hostile feelings for the other.

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Oedipus complex

79
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Takes the form of castration anxiety breaks up the male oedipus complex and results in a well-formed superego.

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Castration Complex

80
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For girls, the castration complex takes the form of

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Penis envy

81
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Psychosexual development from age 5 to puberty, which sexual instinct is partially surpressed

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Latency stage

82
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Begins with puberty, when adolescent experience a reawakening of genital aim of Eros

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Genital

83
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A stage in which the ego
would be in control of the id and superego and in which consciousness would play a more important role in behavior.

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Maturity

84
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Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory

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Free association
Transference
Dream Analysis
Freudian Slips/Parapraxes

85
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Patients are required to verbalize every thought that comes to their mind, no matter how irrelevant or
repugnant it may appear.

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Free Association

86
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Refers to the strong and sexual or aggressive feelings, positive or
negative, the patients develop toward their analyst during the course of treatment.

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Transference

87
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In the form of hostility must
be recognized by the therapist and explained to patients so that they can overcome any resistance to
treatment.

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Negative Transference

88
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To transform the manifest content of dreams to the more important latent content.

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Dream Analysis

89
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Surface meaning or conscious
description given by the dreamer

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Manifest Content

90
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Refers to unconscious material of the dreamer

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