Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Implications for Assessment Flashcards

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Synchronicity Individuation Yin and Yang Complexes

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``` Therapeutic orientation Role of the therapist Dreams Compensatory Prospective “Big dreams” Amplification Active imagination ```

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- Classical drive theory is fundamentally wrong - Believed Freudian theory underemphasized the larger social and cultural context. - Conflict not from drive pressure and regulation, but from shifting and competing relational configurations - Configurations composed of relations between the self and others, real and imagined

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-The centrality of narcissism -Pathological narcissism : a sense that everyone and everything is an extension of the self or exists to serve the self. There is a grandiose sense of self importance and need for constant attention. -Real self and false self Mirrowing

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Narcissism Self object Mirrowing Transferences

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a sustained dialogue over time with its goal of increased awareness-and so psychological freedom – all through the medium of an intense immersion in and exploration of the relationship itself.”

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I like to look at myself in the mirror. I am not particularly interested in looking at myself in the mirror. I am going to be a great person. I hope I am going to be successful. I am more capable than other people. There is a lot that I can learn from other people.

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1. Focus on affect and expression of emotion 2. Exploration of attempts to avoid distressing thoughts and feelings 3. Identification of recurring themes and patterns 4. Discussion of past experience 5. Focus on interpersonal relations 6. Focus on therapy relationship 7. Exploration of fantasy life

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- Conscious and unconscious - Projection and Introjection - Defences - Projective identification - Repetitive interpersonal relationships - Assessment in context of clinical interview and history

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The assumption that personal interpretations of ambiguous stimuli must necessarily reflect the unconscious needs, motives, and conflicts of the examinee is known as the projective hypothesis (Gregory, 2007).

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- Involve the presentation of ambiguous stimuli or task, allowing the examinee considerable freedom of response. - Aim to evaluate underlying intrapsychic conflicts, urges, motives, etc. By allowing the subject to project these conflicts onto the ambiguous stimulus material. - Use ambiguous stimuli to reduce defensiveness.

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``` Ist published in 1921 10 cards symmetrical presented in sequential order increasing colour ```

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Swiss psychiatrist Son of a painter Studied under Bleuler Psychoanalytical orientation American and European therapists used and developed the test independently Exner Comprehensive system (1993) a synthesis of 4 major American systems)

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- Explains 8-13 % variance in the client, compared to 23-30 % explained by MMPI (Garb et al., 1998) - Better inter rater reliability with the new Exner & Exner system (Exner, 1995) - Research (McGrath et al., 2005) found respectable reliability for the scoring system

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-Morgan & Murray “need and press” 31 card (1 is blank) -Black and white pictures -Pictures have different subject content -Cards for male vs boys, female vs girls and for any person. -20 cards adminisitered (16th one is blank -10 cards (no blank) are also used.

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- Children Apperception Test (CAT) for ages 3-10. . - 10 black & white pictures - CAT - A - CAT - H - Supplementary form - Little effective psychometric validation

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1. Main theme 2. Main hero 3. Main needs and drives of the hero 4. Conception of the environment 5. Perception of parental, contemporary and junior figure 6. Conflicts 7. Anxieties 8. Defenses 9. Adequacy of superego 10. Integration of ego

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subject given a paper and asked to draw a person and then a figure of the oposite sex. Also queried about who these characters are and what they are doing / thinking.

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- asked to draw a house, tree and a person - house: family life - tree: experience of the outside world - person; interpersonal relationships.

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- Sentence completion tests - ALL TASKS INVOLVE PRESENTATION TO THE SUBJECT A SENTENCE STEM, WHICH THEY ARE ASKED TO COMPLETE. - Content of sentence can be adapted to suit nature of information sought in clinical situation.

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``` I ……………………… I like …………………. A mother……………… Marriage………………. I wish I had a different sort of a life . ``` I am a woman. A mother is the most loving person on earth, my mother is wonderful. Marriage is a recipe for a disaster, I have just been through one.

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- Average reliability, stability, and validity of Rorschach test high - Reliability and stability of all three tests were acceptable and approximately equivalent. - Convergent-validity estimates for the Rorschach and MMPI were not significantly different, but both these estimates were lower than the estimate for the WAIS. - The MMPI and Rorschach can be considered to have adequate psychometric properties if used for the purpose for which they were designed and validated

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The validity of individual Rorschach variables: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the comprehensive system.