Week 2 - Psychoanalysis (Freudian Therapy) Flashcards
Did Freud view hysteria as a psychological disorder?
Yes and eventually he treated such symptoms with talk therapy, which was seen as revolutionary.
Freud viewed BLANK as a major factor underlying mental disorders.
Sexual drives.
What was the first comprehensive theory of counseling and psychotherapy?
Studies in Hysteria; published by Freud and Breuer.
Who influenced Freud’s developing theory?
Charcot, Fliess, and Breuer. This theory became the first comprehensive theory of counseling and psychotherapy.
What were some of the influences on Freud by Charcot, Fliess, and Breuer?
Concepts such as neurosis, the unconscious, free association, defense mechanisms, transference and countertransference, resistance, and dream analysis.
Did Freud use hypnosis?
Yes, and he later discontinued it, as its “cures” were only temporary.
What was Freud’s seduction theory?
That many patients had been molested at a young age by their fathers and that early childhood sexual trauma was the cause of many of the symptoms exhibited by his patients.
He later abandoned this theory for one in which memories of early sexual trauma were seen as fantasy, often in an effort to repress memories of early masturbation.
What did Freud say in the interpretation of dreams?
He suggested that dreams represent underlying unresolved concerns and desires. This and other publications were why his career took off.
Did Freud mentor Carl Jung?
Yes.
Freud believed that the BLANK hides our desires, fantasies, and wishes, which are the causes of our neuroses.
Unconscious
How did Freud describe nervous symptoms that had no obvious organic basis?
Neuroses
What is modernism?
The world where science, objectivity, and the search for knowledge and truth took precedence over mystical beliefs and religious dogma.
Freud believed that humans are motivated by BLANK, sometimes called BLANK
Instincts, sometimes called drives.
What compromises the id?
Innate psychic energy is what comprises the id and steers behavior toward the satisfaction of unmet needs (hunger, thirst, survival, sex).
Freud postulated that restraints must be placed on the individual through the development of higher-order cognitive processes which he called the BLANK and BLANK
Ego and superego.
How did Freud assert these instincts could be detected?
Through dream analysis, by slips of tongues, by understanding how our defense mechanisms manage our instincts and by understanding how our neuroses and psychoses, manifested through symptoms, are representative of our unsuccessful attempts at redirecting instincts.
Why did Freud believe that happiness was an elusive feeling experienced infrequently and that we are destined to be discontent?
Because the majority of the time we struggle to satisfy our unmet needs.
Is Freud’s theory deterministic?
Yes. He believed the structure of personality is developed in early childhood and is largely unconscious, making personality changes later in life a monumental task.
What is psychic reality?
Our understanding of the world.
Freud suggested that our understanding of the world or our psychic reality, needs to be distinguished from BLANK, which is external to the person yet difficult to know, as each person lives mostly within their own psychic reality.
Objective reality.
According to Freud, how can one understand their motivations and operate more from an objective reality?
Through psychoanalysis
What is the paradox of Freud’s Theory?
Humans create society, which naturally places restraints on behaviors in an attempt for all of us to live in peaceful coexistence. However, these restraints are rebelled against by the id, as it tries to get its needs met. Thus the ego and superego must find ways to defend against the id taking control.
What is conciousness?
All of our feelings, thoughts, fantasies, and behaviors of which we are aware is a small part of what Freud believed motivates the individual.
What is the unconscious?
The more primitive mind, is where our underlying desires and wants that motivate our behavior are contained.
