Psychoanalytical

Question 1

Freud’s Influences

Answer 1

• Josef Breuer was a colleague and mentor of Freud. They were the first to explore ‘talk therapy’ as a way to treat psychological dysfunction. He became a co-author with Freud.
• Jean-Martin Charcot, was an investigator of hysteria and Freud used his work as a basis for his theory.

Question 2

Sociocultural Lens

Answer 2

• The Victorian era was fraught with sexual contradiction
• A façade of control and repression yet men sought prostitutes and women took lovers.
• Women were viewed as either sexual property or objects or sexless roles.
• This time of repressed sexuality became the foundation of Freud’s theory.

Question 3

ID

Answer 3

• Think of a new born baby…non-verbal, non-logical entity and all about instant gratification
• Primarily unconscious
• Inherited, laid down in our constitutional make-up
• Operates on pleasure principle and avoids pain

Question 4

EGO

Answer 4

• Think of a new born baby…non-verbal, non-logical entity and all about instant gratification
• Primarily unconscious
• Inherited, laid down in our constitutional make-up
• Operates on pleasure principle and avoids pain

Question 5

SUPEREGO

Answer 5

• Think of the parental, authoritative figure
• Last psychic entity to develop
• Contains moral beliefs, values, and prohibitions
• Tends to represent our conscience
• Operates on guilt and shame
• The role of identification
– Incorporation of aspects of others into the self

Question 6

Role of Anxiety

Answer 6

• Unconscious psychological processes designed to avoid or reduce the conscious experience of anxiety

Question 7

Process of therapy

Answer 7

Insight
• To understand source of current behavior and symptoms stemming from unresolved unconscious conflicts from childhood
Resistance
• Is expected as it is the workings of the unconscious ego and superego
Transference:
• Key to successful psychoanalysis
Counter transference
• “Empathy gone awry”
• Therapist has not had proper training
• Loses objectivity and the client becomes ‘special’ to them

Question 8

Role of therapist

Answer 8

• Listening with the third ear
– Is this a story about you, me, or what we have created here?
• Process vs. content
• Laying the ground work before interpretation
• Neutrality
• Become involved in unresolved conflicts of client
• Little self-disclosure (foster transference)
• Help client understand historical roots of problem

Question 9

Unconscious

Answer 9

• Fears
• Violent motives
• Unacceptable sexual desires
• Selfish needs
• Immoral urges
• Irrational wishes
• Shameful experiences

Question 10

Drive Theory

Answer 10

• Sexual and aggressive motivation
• The stages are identified by the satisfaction of the sexual drive via different parts of the body
• Too little or too much satisfaction can lead to too much investment of the libido at a given stage (fixation)
• This would result in the individual having a tough time navigating subsequent stages which can lead issues later in life

Question 11

Dream Analysis

Answer 11

• Manifest content: content the dreamer reports which is consciously remembered
• Latent content: most important part of the dream which has been disguised as dream work
• Dream analysis is making the connections between the manifest content of the dream and the latent or symbolic content which includes urges, impulses, and feelings that are unacceptable to the conscious mind.