Lecture 3- Psychodynamic Approaches Flashcards

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What are the great demotions?

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Copernicus, Darwin and Freud

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What is the Copernicus demotion?

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Dethroned the earth (the sun is the centre of the universe)

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What is the Darwin demotion?

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Dethroned the homo sapiens, a result of an evolutionary process

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What is the Freud demotion?

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Dethroned rationality (the motivations tha drive behaviour are unconscious, base and irrational)

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What was the psychoanalytic theory emphasise?

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Emphasises the role of internal mental process and early childhood experience

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What is personality and psychological disoder an outcome of?

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Dynamic interaction

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What does psychopathology result from?

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Unconscious conflicts in the individual

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What are the 3 parts of the mind?

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Conscious mind, pre-conscious and unconscious

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What is the pre-conscious mind?

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Recallable to consciousness

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What is the unconscious mind?

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Unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings and memories

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What is the conscious mind?

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Accessible thoughts

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Why does the unconscious repress thoughts?

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We control urges to keep them from entering conscious awareness as society does not allow free expression of sexual instincts

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What is the tripartite model of the Psyche?

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Ego, superego and ID

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What is the ego characteristics?

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Reality principle, mediates ID and superego, secondary process thinking development of strategies for solving problems and obtaining satisfaction, executive branch

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What is the superego characteristics?

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Moral structure (conscience), internalised taboos and moral values, morality principles, unconstraint by reality (sets high standards)

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What is the ID characteristics?

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Most primitive, instinctual drives, pleasure principle, primary process thinking characterised the ID, judicial branch

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What is compromise formation

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Ego tries to find the balance between demands of motivation, morality and practicality

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What did Enoch and Ball find?

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Capgras delusions (represents an attempt to well forbidden desires) resolve ambivalent feelings of love and hatred towards a spouse of close relative.

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What did Capgras and Carette find?

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Capgras delusions represents an attempt to veil forbidden incestuous desires

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What does Freud say about anxiety?

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Causal role in the most forms of psychopathology

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What are the 3 types of anxiety?

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Objective, neurotic and moral

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What is objective anxiety?

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Fear of danger from the real world, level is proportionate to degree of threat

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What is neurotic anxiety?

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Fear that instincts will get out of hand and cause someone to do something which they will be punished for

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What is moral anxiety?

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Fear of one’s own conscience (feeling guilty when we do something against the moral code)

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What are the defence mechanisms?

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Repression, denial, projection, reaction formation, regression, undoing, compensation, sublimation, humour

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What is repression?

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Blocks threatening material from the consciousness

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What is projection?

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Attributing ones own unacceptable impulse or action to another. We can then condemn the impulse in the other people instead of condemning ourselves

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What is displacement?

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Discharging of pent up feelings on safer targets than those that arouse the feelings

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What is reaction formation?

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Expressing the exact opposite of an unacceptable desire

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What is regression?

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Retreating to an earlier development level involving less mature behaviour and responsibility

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What is undoing?

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A repetitive action that symbolically atones for an unacceptable impulse or behaviour

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What is compensation?

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Making up for feelings of inferiority or perceived limitations by developing other positive traits

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What is sublimation?

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Channeling frustrated sexual or aggressive energies into different areas particularly more socially acceptable or evem admirable areas

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What is humour?

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Dealing with unpleasant ideas or situations with wit and self-deprecationW

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What is denial?

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Not acknowledge a situation

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What does Freud say that fainting is?

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Fainting represents the most massive denial, the refusal or inability to remain conscious in the face of a threat

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What does Freud say about humour?

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Jokes allows the expression of impulses ordinarily held in check, especially aggressive and sexual impulses. Laughing will release tension

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What did Nevo and Nevo do?

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Asked high school students to write funny captions to pictures, students used freud’s techniques (students responses were filled with aggressive and sexual themes

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What are the stages of psychosexual development?

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Emergence of the ego and superego are associated with 5 stages of personality development

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What are the stages of psychosexual development characterised by?

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A dominant mode of achieving libidinal energy where the erogenous zones are bodily areas which are the focus of pleasure

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What can occur if a child doesn’t resolve conflict at a particular stage?

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T hey may get fixated in that stage resulting in a corresponding adult character type

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What does each stage represent?

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A more mature mode of obtaining sexual gratification

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When is the oral stage?

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Birth to 18 months

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What are the erogenous zones of the oral stage?

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Mouth, lips, tongue

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What are the conflicts of the oral stage?

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Dependency on others, fixated on alcoholism, eating disorders, smoking

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When is the anal stage?

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18 months to 3 years

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What are the erogenous zones of the anal stage?

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Anus + buttocks region. The child obtains pleasures from expelling faeces during toilet training and from retaining faeces

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What are the conflicts of the anal stage?

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Key conflicts are associated with issues of self-control. Anal retentive and anal expulsive

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What are characteristics of anal retentive?

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Organised, controlled, rigid, obsessive-compulsive, stingy

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What are characteristics of anal expulsive?

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Disorganised, messy and overly generous

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When is the phallic stage?

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3-5 years

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What are the erogenous zones of the phallic stage?

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G enitals

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What are the conflicts of phallic stage?

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Oedipal and electra, castration anxiety, penis envy. Sexual desire for opposite sex parent and desire to eliminate same sex

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What is the resolution of the phallic stage?

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I dentification with same sex parent and development of superego

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What are phobias in the psychodynamic approach?

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Phobias are from when an unconscious anxiety is displaced onto a neutral or symbolic object

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What is little Hans?

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Horse phobia after seeing a horse fall to the ground, freud says that Hans’ oedipal fears of his father was displaced onto horses and was symbolic of penises (fear of castration from his father)

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Where do fetishes originate?

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Fetishes originates in the male child’s horror of castration

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What is the fetishistic object a symbol of?

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A symbolic substitute for the mother’s missing penis

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When is the latency stage?

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6-12 years

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What is sexual motivations channels in in the latency stage?

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Age-appropriate interests such as sports and hobbies

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When is the genital stage?

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Puberty to adulthood

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What is the person driven by in the genital stage?

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Individual is driven by two basic motivating forces: sex and aggression

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How do individual release the energy in the genital stage?

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Socially appropriate channels through sexual intercourse with age appropriate adults, sports and career progression

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What is the goal of the psychoanalytic theory?

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The bringing into conscious awareness of formerly unconscious material. Curing of psychological disorders

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What are the psychoanalytic theory tools?

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Interpretation, outcoming the resistance of patients, neutrality, transference, resisting countertransference

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What is interpretation?

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Suggesting hidden meaning to patients’ accounts of their lives

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What is neutrality?

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A distant stance to minimise therapist’s personal influence

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What is transference?

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Patients transfer their feelings about people in their lives onto the analyst and avoiding reacting as the real figure would

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What is countertransference?

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The their own feelings won’t influence their responses

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What are the characteristics of countertransference?

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Idealisation, invitation to rescue, acting the helpless child, seeking approval, invitation to intimacy, loss of objectivity, preoccupation

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What is malan triangles?

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Developed which represent transference in psychotherapy

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What are the three windows into the unconscious?

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Free association, slips of the tongue, dreams

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What is free association?

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The client verbalising whatever comes to mind with censoring the stream of thought

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What is the goal of free association?

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Revealing aspects of the unconscious mind and desires

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What are slips of the tongue?

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Psychic determinism where accident of daily life are expression of motivated unconscious

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What is dream analysis?

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Road to the unconscious where the therapist tries to analyse the dream

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What is dream work?

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The process where the brain censors dreams

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What occurs in dreams?

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Unconscious desires by the need to be censored and changed into ideocratic symbols

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What is the latent content of dreams?

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The hidden psychological content of the dreams, disguised to be less traumatic

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What is the manifest content of dreams?

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The dream that the conscious individual remembers experiencing.

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What are the strengths of Freud’s theory?

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Revolutionary and high influence

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What is revolutionary of Freud’s theory?

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Major influence on popular culture and generation of other theories

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What is influential of Freud’s theory?

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Influential in society outside of Psychology

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What did Redmond and Shulman find?

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86% of classes psychoanalysis is taught outside of the Psychology department

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What are the limitation of Freud’s theory?

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Data, falsifability, unparsimonous, sexism,

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What is falsifiability?

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Falsifiability is the capacity for some proposition, statement, theory or hypothesis to be proven wrong which psychodynamic cannot

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What is wrong with Freud’s data?

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Mostly uses case studies and based on observation of wealthy educated Viennese women and recorded his interpretations rather than describing the actual behaviour

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Why is Freud’s theory unparsimonious?

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Many theories are often confusing and could be simplier

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Why is Freud’s theory sexist?

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Says women castrate men and develop weaker superegos so have weaker moral characters

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What is intensive short term dynamic psychotherapy?

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Aims to help patient experience warded off feelings, tries to achieve as quickly as possible and works with the unconscious

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What is psychoanalytic neutrality?

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A barrier for forming therapeutic alliance

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What are the key points of Leichsenring and Rabring?

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Found that long term psychotherapy is effective for complex mental disorders
Short term psychotherapy is effective but insufficient for chronic comorbidity