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Final Exam Terms
Psychotherapy
The treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means
Psychodynamic
primary focus of which is to reveal the unconscious content of a client’s psyche in an effort to alleviate psychic tension
Integration
When referring to integration and different theories integration is the taking of a concept found in one school of therapy and including it into another.
Ego Defense Mechanisms
Mental strategies (conscious or unconscious) used by the ego to defend itself against conflicts experienced in the normal course of life.
Psychosexual Stages
Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital
Abreaction
the expression and consequent release of a previously repressed emotion, achieved through reliving the experience that caused it (typically through hypnosis or suggestion)
Free Association
The therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur
Id
The primitive, unconscious part of the personality that operates irrationally and acts on impulse to pursue pleasure
Ego
The aspect of personality involved in self-preservation activities and in directing instinctual drives and urges into appropriate channels
Super Ego
The aspect of personality that represents the internalization of society’s values, standards, and morals
Object Relations
Psychoanalytic theory that originated with Melanie Klein’s view that the building blocks of how people experience the world emerge from their relations to loved and hated objects (significant people in their lives)
Neurosis
A relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality
Pleasure Principle
Aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure
Part of Sigmund Freud’s structure of personality and is associated with the Id
Reality Principle
The ego’s control of the pleasure-seeking activity of the id in order to meet the demands of the external world
Oedipal Complex
The Oedipal complex is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory ofpsychosexual stages of developmentto describe a boy’s feelings of desire for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father. Essentially, a boy feels like he is in competition with his father for possession of his mother. He views his father as a rival for her attentions and affections