Clinical Psychology Flashcards
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Freudian topography
Conscious level: thoughts, feelings, perceptions in awareness
Preconsciousness: just below the conscious level, contains material not currently in awareness but readily accessible to consciousness
Unconscious: largest component of psyche, contains threatening emotions, memories, and other material not available to awareness
Structural theory
- psychic structure consists of id, ego, and superego
Id
present at birth, consists of all of the basic biological instincts that drive or direct behavior
- the most important are sexual (life) and aggression (death) instincts
- functions according to pleasure principle, seeks immediate gratification, relies on primary process thinking (unconscious, impulsive, irrational)
- they must be deduced from dreams, slips of the tongue, and free associations
Ego
- part of the id modified by interaction with the external world
- reality principle
- seeks gratification of the id’s instincts but attempts to do so in ways compatible with reality
- operates at all 3 levels of consciousness
- relies on secondary process thinking, logical and rational
Superego
- last component to develop
- serves as the conscience, operates at all 3 levels of consciousness
- evolves from internalization of parental prohibitions, standards, and values
- attempts to permanently block the id’s socially unacceptable instincts
Freudian conflict
- anxiety emerges from conflicting demands of id, ego, and superego
- when ego is unable to resolve anxiety using realistic, rational means, it employs defense mechanisms, which operate at an unconscious level and deny or distort reality
- repression, denial, reaction formation, rationalization, projection, displacement, regression, sublimation (repression is the most basic and underlies all)
Freudian goals and techniques
- Goals: to bring unconscious unresolved conflicts into consciousness and strengthen the ego so that behavior is based less or instincts and more on reality
- Targets of analysis: client’s free associations, resistance, dreams, and transference
- Procedures of analysis: confrontation, clarification, interpretation, working through
- countertransference
Jung’s Analytical Psychology
- rejected Freudian principles, holding a more positive view of human nature, believed development continues into adulthood, behavior affected by past events and future goals
Jung’s structure of the psyche
1 - Conscious: ego with all thoughts, feelings, present awareness
2 - Personal unconscious: forgotten and repressed memories, complexes (collections of thoughts, feelings, and attitudes ie power, inferiority)
3 - Collective unconscious: wisdom shared by all people, developed and passed from generation to generation; archetypes, universal mental structures, including the persona, shadow, anima/animus
Jung’s personalities
Introversion: direct their energy inward, prefer alone time
Extroversion: direct their energy outward, seek social contact
Jung’s personality functions
sensing, thinking, feeling, and intuiting
- personality is combo of dominant attitude and function, ie introverted-sensing, extraverted-thinking
Jung’s goals and techniques
- Goal: to bring unconscious material into consciousness to facilitate the process of individuation, an integration of all conscious and unconscious aspects of the self into a unified whole
- Techniques: dream interpretation, active imagination, analysis of transference
Adler’s Individual Psychology
- rejected Freud’s theories and replaced his sexual instincts with an innate social interest, more interested in conscious processes, and adopted an approach focused on the effects of future goals on current behaviors
Adler’s inferiority v superiority
- feelings of inferiority: develop during childhood (first 4-5 years) in response to real or imagined disabilities and inadequacies, and people are motivated to overcome their sense of inferiority using some compensation
- striving for superiority: innate drive toward competence and effectiveness
Adler’s Style of Life
- describes the ways in which a person strives for superiority
- healthy style of life: goals that reflect not only concern for personal accomplishment but also the welfare of others
- mistaken/unhealthy style of life: overcompensation for feelings of inferiority, self-centeredness, lack of concern about well-being of others
Adler’s goals and techniques
- Goal: to replace a mistaken style of life with a healthier, more adaptive one
3 phases:
1 - therapeutic relationship
2 - development of the client’s mistaken style of life
3 - developing social interests - Techniques: early recollections, dream interpretation, encouragement, modeling, prescribing the symptom, modeling, encouragement, and “acting as if”
Neo-Freudians
- generally downplayed instinctual drives and focused on social and cultural influences on personality
- more positive view of human nature
- include Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan, Erich Fromm
Karen Horney
focused on the impact of early relationships; certain parenting behaviors cause a child to experience basic anxiety, or a feeling of helplessness and isolation in a hostile world; child adopts certain interpersonal coping strategies - moving towards others, moving against others, or moving away from others - healthy person uses all, neurotic uses only one
Harry Stack Sullivan
- prototaxic mode: before symbols are used, discrete unconnected momentary states and an inability to differentiate between self and external world
- parataxic mode: autistic symptoms, differentiate certain aspects of experiences, seeing casual connections that are unrelated
- syntaxic mode: meaningful symbols, logical thought, and interpersonal communication
Neurosis: arrest at parataxic mode leads to parataxic distortions, due to unsatisfactory early relationships
Erich Fromm
society prevents individuals from realizing essential nature to be creative, loving, and productive; 5 character styles - receptive, exploitative, hoarding, marketing, and productive - only productive permits a person to find nature
Ego-Analysts
- Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, David Rappaport, Heinz Hartmann
- greater emphasis on ego role in development
1 - ego-defensive: resolution of internal conflicts
2 - ego-autonomous functions: adaptive, non-conflictual, learning, memory, comprehension, and perception - healthy behavior: under conscious control, pathology: ego loses autonomy from id
Object Relations Theory
- Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg, Margaret Mahler
- behavior is motivated by a desire for human connection rather than sexual or aggressive drives
- focuses on the impact of early relationships between a child and significant other (“objects”) in the child’s life
Object Relations Theory: object constancy
the ability to maintain a predominantly positive emotional connection to a significant other independent to one’s need state or the ability to gratify one’s needs
- when a child is not provided adequate care, lead to splitting, abnormalities in object relations
Mahler’s object constancy model
1 - normal autistic stage: first few weeks of life, infant aware only of self
2 - normal symbiotic stage: infant becomes aware of the external world but is unable to differentiate between self and others
3 - separation-individuation stage: 5-36 mos - differentiation, practicing, rapprochement, and beginning of object constancy - finality is integration, stable mental representations of self and others