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Topographic Model

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Conscious
Preconscious
not aware of but easily available.
Unconscious- a lot of work to get into unconscious factors.

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ID

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a part of your personality that wants immediate gratification impulses. - seeks gratification wants to feel pleasure.
wish fulfillment - where we create fantasies.

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Ego

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develops early parts in life, reality principle.
tries to satisfy wishes of the ID that considers environmental and external reality.
postpones discharge of the ID until there can be an appropriate, acceptable release.

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Super Ego

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considers society’s values. Around age 5
Internalized parents; everywhere you go you take your parents with you.
Take those lessons from your parents; your conscience - morals and all that; where it lies.
The part that tells you right from wrong.
Doesn’t feel much gift. Most using ID
If Superego is over developed, they have a lot of guilt.

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Psychotherapy

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have the patient become aware of their unconscious feelings, so the ego doesn’t have to work so hard to keep it in check.

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Neurotic Anxiety

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vague feelings of anxiety
unacceptable unconscious thoughts try to get to consciousness.
a conflict between the ID and the Ego.

(i.e. woman → anxious when sexually attracted to guy, this creates anxiety- but not aware of it)

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Moral Anxiety

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conflict between Ego and Superego.
people who punish themselves who do not live up to their perfectionistic standards.

(i.e. if you’re on a diet and then one day you have 4 doughnuts, then the need to do hella exercise comes from this anxiety.

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Denial (conscious level)

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refusing to believe reality.

i.e. lung cancer - refuse to believe reality.

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Repression

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when on uncon level, you block painful feelings or memories from awareness

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Reaction Formation

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uncon block painful feelings and memories from awareness. By exaggerating the opposite behavior.
i.e. image you have a female friend, prego, did you have the baby, had baby two months ago, I don’t like the baby, I hate my baby.
Overly loving, act the opposite of how you feel.

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Projection

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when you attribute what’s going on with you, a feeling unacceptable, rather than its going on with you- you see it with people out here.
I see my weaknesses in other people.
All my friends are insecure, not me = lowers anxiety.

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Regression

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revert to an early state of development.
i.e. 10 yr old boy suffering from anxiety because new baby is born, but he then starts sucking your thumb.
go back to a behavior that used to be a source of comfort

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Displacement

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channel impulse to non threatening object or person.
i.e. angry at your boss - you take it out on other people around you.
this is a safe release

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Intellectualization

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overly logical in the place of emotion.
too much focused on stats.
as a therapist you would.. rephrase it, instead of feel use think.
don’t force it out of them.

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Compensation

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perceived weakness and you try to take the focus off that weakness by excelling in another area.
poor student; to take it off that- become a great athlete

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Sublimation

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when you try to find appropriate release for unacceptable impulses.
the impulses; sexual, aggressive.
writing romance stories, showing off something in an acceptable way

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Rationalization

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inaccurate explanation for your behavior.

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Oral

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Different stages in your life, different parts of your body are the source of pleasure or frustration.
if overly indulged, or traumatic event causes frustration at a particular stage, your personality will take on traits of that stage.
i.e. infants first, oral, if overly gratified- took things in too easily, when hungry was given. But if overly indulged in life, you will take on specific oral traits in your life. = gullible.
given frustrated, frustrated when an adult. Aggressive in a verbal way, sarcastic, biting personality. = frustrated at oral stages. Also, alcohol abuse, cigs, food.

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Anal

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1-3 pleasure or frustration is their poop. toilet training - parents were lax, you gotta go, go anywhere, let it out whenever you feel it
when older, you take out those traits, meaning - you’ll let it out easily. Messy, sloppy,
don’t give it up easily- stubborn.

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Phallic

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3-5. Oedipal complex. Physically and sexually attracted to the opposite sex parent. (to the mother).

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Latency

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No further psychosexual development takes place during this stage (latent means hidden). The libido is dormant. Freud thought that most sexual impulses are repressed during the latent stage and sexual energy can be sublimated (re: defense mechanisms) towards school work, hobbies and friendships. Much of the child’s energy is channeled into developing new skills and acquiring new knowledge and play becomes largely confined to other children of the same gender.

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Genital

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This is the last stage of Freud’s psychosexual theory of personality development and begins in puberty. It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful resolution of which is settling down in a loving one-to-one relationship with another person in our 20’s. Sexual instinct is directed to heterosexual pleasure, rather than self pleasure like during the phallic stage.

For Freud, the proper outlet of the sexual instinct in adults was through heterosexual intercourse. Fixation and conflict may prevent this with the consequence that sexual perversions may develop. For example, fixation at the oral stage may result in a person gaining sexual pleasure primarily from kissing and oral sex, rather than sexual intercourse.

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Dreams

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unconscious fears, wishes, fantasies
tell a dream more than once,
reoccurring dreams represent recurring issues.

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Manifest Content/ Latent Content

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manifest is the dream itself

latent content is the underlying meaning of the dream.

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Projective Tests

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personality tests; do not have a clear cut scoring system
get at unconscious thoughts and feelings.
2 names of projective test.
Rorschach
ink blot test, try to assess person’s personality. - low validity.
TAT Test
20 sketches; tell me a story about what you see. What are they feeling and what is the outcome?

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Free Association

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say the first thing that pops in your head.

watch what they say and how quickly they say it.

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Transference

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conveys feelings to the therapist that are really meant for other people in the patient’s life.
If patient gets angry at therapist,
“why would a therapist encourage transference”? -
this is the third sessions we had, you never listen, this reminds me of my parents, then boom, origin is identified.

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Resistance

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i.e. not taking it seriously, making jokes, being late- on some level they weren’t ready to talk about it, changing the subject,

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Negation

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when a person acknowledges what’s true for you but the way you do it is by putting a “No” in front of it. “it’s not that he’s just a jerk- he’s just “
Not wanting to create anxiety. sayin he’s not a jerk but describes
dream of a ball against your head. - is that your father, says no.

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Slip of the tongue

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if something comes out, “celebrate, separate”

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Interpretation

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point out to the patient what you observe.

32
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All designed to increase awareness.

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Point out what you see and leave it at that…