Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud father of ….

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Father of psychoanalysis theory of devolopment

Question 2

What did he do in Vienna, Austria?

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He opens a practice specializing in nervous and brain disorder

Question 3

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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