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Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis Flashcards

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Freud father of ….

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Father of psychoanalysis theory of devolopment

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What did he do in Vienna, Austria?

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He opens a practice specializing in nervous and brain disorder

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What career option that he chooses?

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Medicine and specialized in neurology

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Life instincts

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Serve purpose of survival

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Libido

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Sexual urges

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Death instincts

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The human tendency to destructive, risky or negative behaviour

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Aggressive drive

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The compulsion to destroy, conquer and kill

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Level of Personality
Conscious

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  • Current state of awareness
  • Contains all of our thoughts, memories and
    wishes that we are aware of
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Level of Personality
Preconscious

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  • Not currently aware of but can be recalled
  • Controls the information that is allowed to
    enter conscious awareness
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Level of Personality
Unconscious

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  • Outside of our awareness
  • Lies far below, but continues to exert
  • Where we stored repressed feelings, hidden
    memories, habits, thoughts, desires and
    reactions
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Structure of Personality
Id

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  • Natural Impulse
  • Such as sex, hunger and thirst
  • Young children are driven by the Id
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Structure of Personality
Ego

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  • The reality principle
  • Compromise between the Id and superego
    to determine behaviour
  • Adolescence mostly try to balance between
    their Id and superego
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Structure of Personality
Superego

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  • Morality principle
  • Want to become a good moral and do the
    thing we should do in the situation
  • Develop around age seven
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Anxiety

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Fear of tangible danger in the real world

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Definition of defence mechanism

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  • A mental process initiated unconsciously to
    avoid experiencing conflict or anxiety
  • When the ego is distorted in order to protect
    itself from anxiety
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Defence mechanism
Repression

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  • An unconscious mechanism employed by
    ego to keep disturbing or threatening
    thoughts from becoming conscious
  • Being unable to recall memories of traumatic
    events
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Defence mechanism
Denial

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  • Refusal to accept the truth/reality
  • Refuse to experience the situation that they
    consider as too much
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Defence mechanism
Projection

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  • Put the person’s true feelings to others
  • Example: Sally felt anxiety about the
    possibility of being rejected by Marcus so she
    transfers the feeling towards her by telling
    Marcus that her friend has a crush on him
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Defence mechanism
Displacement

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  • The person satisfied their true feeling with
    substitution object
  • In a socially unacceptable way
  • Example: Kicking dog, talking vulgarly
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Defence mechanism
Regression

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  • This is a movement back in psychological
    time when one is faced with stress
  • Behave in a way that is immature for their
    age
  • Children: Wetting bed
  • Adults: Hug a teddy bear
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Defence mechanism
Sublimation

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  • The person satisfied their true feeling with
    substitution object
  • In a socially acceptable way
  • Example: Self-defence classes, sports
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5 Stages of Personality Development
Oral

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Age Range: Birth to 1 Year
Erogenous Zone: Mouth
- State of total dependence on caregivers

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5 Stages of Personality Development
Anal

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Age Range: 1 to 3 years
Erogenous Zone: Bowel and Bladder Control
- Learn to control Id impulses

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Oedipus complex
Phallic Stage

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  • Feelings of wanting to possess the mother
    and the desire to replace the father.
  • Happen towards a boy
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Electra complex
Phallic Stage

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  • Feelings of wanting to possess the father
    and the desire to replace the mother.
  • Happen toward a girl
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5 Stages of Personality Development
Phallic

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Age Range: 3 to 6 Years
Erogenous Zone: Genitals
- If the desired needs are not met then
children tend to develop aggression
behaviour

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5 Stages of Personality Development
Latency

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Age Range: 6 to Puberty
Erogenous Zone: Sexual Feelings Are Inactive
- Form sexual identity
- The latent period is a time of exploration in
which the sexual energy is repressed or
dormant

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5 Stages of Personality Development
Genital

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Age Range: Puberty to Death
Erogenous Zone: Maturing Sexual Interests
- The individual develops a strong sexual
interest in the opposite sex
- Ego and superego were fully formed and
functioning at this point

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Assessment
Dream analysis

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  • A method of diagnosing a patient’s mental
    state by an analysis of a person’s dreams
  • Identify your true desires and worst through
    analyzing the content of dreams
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Assessment
Catharsis

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A powerful emotional release that, when successful, is accompanied by cognitive insight and positive change

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Assessment
Free association

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The therapist asks a person in therapy to freely share thoughts, words, and anything else that comes to mind
- Inkblot theraphy

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Criticism of Freud

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  • Deterministic theory
  • Negative view of human nature - more to
    sexual urges
  • Flaws in the case study approach
  • Neglect of social factors in personality
  • Emphasis on past experience and implication
    for individual present and future behaviour
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Contributions of Freud

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  • Contributed to an empirical study of
    psychology
  • Role of the unconscious in behaviour
  • Role of childhood experiences
  • Defense mechanisms use in daily life
  • Use in clinical sites

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