Coping Mechanisms: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Question 1

Psychotherapy defined

Answer 1

Tx of mental and emotional disorders

Relationship between patient and professional

Question 2

Psychotherapy sessions

Answer 2

45-50 minutes
One or more times a week

Symptoms may be relieved in a few sessions but lasting changes take longer

Question 3

Psychotherapy differs from other people bc

Answer 3

Trained
Objective
Work through resistance issues

Question 4

Guidelines for patients new

Answer 4

Some are rooted in medical conditions

Might have a honeymoon effect

Taking things apart can make patient feel worse before better

Question 5

Efficacy of psychotherapy

Answer 5

Can be just as good as meds

Faster than patient handling on own

Question 6

Psychoanalytical psychotherapy

Answer 6

Focuses on the past

Patients encouraged to free associate and let mings wonder

Little interaction until analyst offers interpretations

Considered long term and meets multiple times per week

Face one another

Question 7

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

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Our past is the basis for problems that exist into adulthood

Face one another

Accomplished by helping individuals recognize and look beyond their protective ego defense mechs to deal with conflict better

Value is on patient’s internal world

Question 8

Resistance

Answer 8

Patient’s wish to preserve status quo and oppose the therapists effort to produce change

Trying to avoid unpoleasant feelings

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Transference

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Patient esperiences pscyhiatrist as a signifcant figure from their past

Feelings and qualities are associated with it

Could manifest into reliationship problems

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Countertransference

Answer 10

Therapists bring their life expeirences into therapy expereince

Therapist transfers own unconscious feelings to his/her paitnet

Question 11

ID and superego

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ID - acts according to pleasure principle…avoid pain and find pleasurable

Superego - perfection…the conscience…crtiiize or inhibit drives

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Ego basic functions

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Control and regulation of instincutal drives - delay or postpone gratification
JUdgement - anticipate consequences
Object relations- capcity to form mutually satisfying relatioships
Relation to reality

A lot can be learned from work history and relationship patterns

Question 13

Ego defense mechs

Answer 13

Manner by which an individual deals with emotional conflict or internal/external stressors

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Projection

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Falsely attribute to another his or her unacceptable feelings

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Humor

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Emphasizing amusing or ironic aspects

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Acting Out

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Actions rather than feelings or emotions

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Rationalization

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Conceal true motivations of own throughts through elaboration of reassuing or self-serving but incorrect explanations

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Denial

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By refusing to acknowledge some painful aspect of external reality that would be apparent to others

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Sublimation

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Channel maladptive feelings into socially acceptable behavior

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DIsplacement

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By transferring a feeling about one object onto other usually less threatening object

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Altruism

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Dedication to needs of others

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Isolation of affect

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Separation of ideas from the feelings originally associated wit hthe,m