Freud and Psychoanalysis

Question 1

Freud’s three principle parts of the mind

Answer 1

Id, Ego & Superego

Question 2

This part of the mind was present at birth, basic urges for food, water, elimination, warmth, affection and sex

Answer 2

Id

Question 3

Develops in the first six months, primarily conscious, deals with reality and mediates the demand of reality and the Id’s demand for instant gratification

Answer 3

Ego

Question 4

The part of the mind roughly conceived as the conscience and develops throughout childhood, and begin to incorporate values.

Answer 4

Superego

Question 5

A strategy used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety.

Answer 5

Defense Mechanism

Question 6

the goal of the therapist is to understand the person’s early-childhood experiences, the nature of key relationships, and the patterns in current relationships. The therapist is listening for core emotional and relationship themes that surface again and again

Answer 6

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Question 7

refers to the person’s responses to his or her analyst that seem to reflect attitudes and ways of behaving toward important people in the person’s past.

Answer 7

Transference

Question 8

Major techniques of psychoanalysis

Answer 8

Free association, Interpretation, and analysis of Transference

Question 9

Three influences of Freud upon today’s psychotherapy

Answer 9

1 Childhood experiences help shape adult personality, 2 Unconscious influences upon behavior, and 3 Causes and purposes of adult behavior are not always obvious.

Question 10

Two of Freud’s contemporaries who broke from his theory and developed their own or carried it further

Answer 10

Jung & Adler

Question 11

He hypothesized that in addition to the personal unconscious postulated by Freud, there is a collective unconscious, the part of the unconscious that is common to all human beings and that consists primarily of “archetypes,” or basic categories that all human beings use in conceptualizing about the world.

Answer 11

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Question 12

Developed Analytical Psychology

Answer 12

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Question 13

Developed Individual Psychology

Answer 13

Alfed Adler (1870-1937)

Question 14

Regarded that people are inextricably tied to their society because he believed that fulfillment was found in doing things for the social good. Focus on changing illogical or mistaken ideas and expectations

Answer 14

Alfed Adler (1870-1937)

Question 15

He believed that feeling and behaving better depend on “thinking more rationally,” an approach that anticipated contemporary developments in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Answer 15

Alfed Adler (1870-1937)