Module 3 Flashcards
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- born in May 6, 1856 in Freiburg, Czechoslovakia
at 4, moved to Vienna - after med school, specialized in Neurology in Paris Jean-Martin Charcot
- taught in hypnosis by Leibault and Bernheim
- back in Vienna, began clinical work with hysterical patients
- 1887 - 1897 development of psychoanalysis
- Died in 1939 in London
SIGMUND FREUD
- anything that comes to mind initially or immediately
Free Association
Transference vs Countertransference
Transference: patient to therapist; people of the past that reminds you of the person in front of you
Countertransference: therapist to patient; the therapist sees a person from his or her past on the patient
- process by which patient’s recollection of circumstances at the time symptoms appeared has led those same symptoms to disappear
talking cure
- eruption of repressed thought / feeling when one word is substituted for another reveals an unacceptable unconscious wish
- evidence of role of unconscious in everyday life
Parapraxes
- vocational choice, selection of romantic partners, dreams, symptoms of psychiatric disorders - have meaning
- shaped by unconscious forces in dynamic relationship with one another, not randomly selected
Psychic determinism
- developmental successes / failures - central to evolution of adult characters and influential in pathogenesis of adult psychiatric disorder
- factors include traumas, subtle and repetitive forms of interaction between children and parents, children and siblings
Past is Prologue
Topographical Model of the Mind
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconcious
Structural Theory of the Mind
- Id - me only; present since birth
- Ego - me and others; arises only 2-3 months after birth
- Superego
Structural Theory of the Mind: Ego
- Conscious and Preconscious functions
- Logical and abstract thinking and verbal expression - Unconscious domain - Defense Mechanisms
- Executive organ of the psyche - controls motility, perception; contact with reality; the delay and modulation of drive expression
Process: Primary Process ( wishing, fantasizing: the desire to create something that would satisfy some strong need going inside you at the time) momentarily pleasurable experiences
Reflex Action
Development: Innate; Biological Component
Principle: Pleasure principle
Conflict: Irrational (if it feels good do it)
Id
Process:
Secondary Process (thinking) - in charge of all our higher mental process: Thinking, reasoning, problem solving, judgement, perception, learning
Non reflexive behavior: voluntary movement and coordination, anything we chose to do
Sense of identity and environment
Use of manipulation of Ego Defense Mechanisms
Development: Develops between birth and 2 weeks
Principle: Reality principle
Conflict: Rational (job is to try to maintain stability)
Ego
Process: Socialization (end product of socialization)
Development: Entirely learned; demands perfection; social/moral component
Principle: Morality Principle
Conflict: Irrational (demands perfection)
Super Ego
FREUD’S DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES Age: 0-18 months Definition: centered in oral zone Description: Oral sensations –> thirst, hunger, touch by nipple Oral tension –> oral gratification ORAL TRIAD: wish to EAT, SLEEP, RELAX Objectives: to establish trusting dependence on nursing and sustaining objects
ORAL STAGE
Oral Stage: Pathologic and Character Traits
Pathologic Traits (adult fixation): excessive oral gratification/deprivation
- optimism, narcissism, pessimism,
- dependence, demandingness
Character Traits: capacities to give and receive from others
w/o excessive dependence, capacity to rely on others with
sense of trust
Age: 1-3 years
Definition: maturation of sphincter control
Description: passivity => activity
anal control and toilet training => increase in ambivalence;
struggle of independence
Objectives: to achieve autonomy and independence without shame/self-doubt from loss of control
Anal Stage
Anal Stage: Pathologic and Character Traits
Pathologic Traits: orderliness, stubbornness, frugality,
ambivalence, messiness, rage, defiance
Character Traits: personal autonomy, independence and
initiative w/o guilt, lack of ambivalence, capacity for willing
cooperation
Age: 3-5 years
Definition: sexual interest; stimulation/excitement of genitals
Description: penis – organ of interest; unconscious fantasies
of sexual involvement with opposite sex parent
Objectives: to integrate residues of previous stages into
genital-sexual orientation
Phallic Stage
Phallic Stage: Pathologic and Character Traits
Pathologic Traits:
- castration anxiety for males
- penis envy for females
- patterns of identity
Character Traits:
- sense of sexual identity, regulation of
drive impulses
- superego as source of regulation
- based on identification with parental figures
Age: 5-6 until 11-13 years
Definition: inactivity of sexual drive
Description: homosexual affliations, sublimation into
learning, play activities, exploring environment, skills
development
Objectives: to further integrate oedipal identities; consolidate sex role identity
Latency Stage
Latency Stage: Pathologic and Character Traits
Pathologic Traits: lack of control, failure to sublimate
energies in learning; excess in skill development, premature closing of personality development
Character Traits: establish decisive pattern of adaptive
functioning, capacity for mastery of objects with a sense of
initiative without sense of inferiority
Age: 11-18 years
Definition: intensification of drives
Description: reopening of conflicts of previous stages,
regression in personality organization
Objectives:
- to separate from dependence/attachment to parents
- to establish mature, non-incestuous object relations, to
achieve mature sense of personal identity, to integrate adult
roles/function
Genital Stage
Genital Stage: Pathologic and Character Traits
Pathologic Traits: previous unsuccessful resolution/fixation
=> defect of adult personality
Character Traits: capacity for full and satisfying genital
potency, self-integration, self-identity
Ages: 0-1
Focus of Libido: Mouth, Tongue, Lips
Major Development: Weaning off of breast feeding or formula
Adult Fixation Example: Overeating, smoking
Oral