Psychodynamic

Question 1

Adler’s Teleological Approach

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behavior is motivated by future goals versus past events

Question 2

Psychic Determinism

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all behaviors are meaningful and serve some psychological function

Question 3

Freud therapy technique and targets

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Analysis targets free association, dreams, resistance, transference

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Psychodynamic assumptions

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Behavior is motivated by unconscious
early development is important
universal principals explain behavior and personally
insight is key component

Question 5

Projection

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threatening impulse attributed to another person or external source

Question 6

Freud view of depression

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object loss, anger toward object turned inward

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Freud view of phobia

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displacement of anxiety onto object event

Question 8

Freud view of mania

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defense against libidinal or aggressive urges that threaten ego

Question 9

reaction formation

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avoiding anxiety-provoking impulse by expressing its opposite

Question 10

repression

Answer 10

id’s drives and needs excluded from conscious awareness

Question 11

defense mechanisms

Answer 11

unconscious, deny/distorts reality

Question 12

Freud re: anxiety

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alert ego to threat

Question 13

id

Answer 13

life and death instincts, pleasure principle

Question 14

ego

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reality principle, defers gratification, rational

Question 15

superego

Answer 15

internalization of society’s values and standards

Question 16

psychodynamic therapies

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Freud, Adler individual psychology, Jung’s analytical, object relations

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Adler’s individual psychology key concepts

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inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, style of life, social interest

Question 18

Style of life

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way a person chooses to compensate for inferiority and achieve superiority
unifies various aspects of personality
established by 4-5 years old
healthy reflects optimism, confidence, concern about others
mistaken reflects self-centered, competitive, striving for power

Question 19

Adler pampered child

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do not develop social feelings

Question 20

Adler neglected child

Answer 20

need for revenge

Question 21

Adler view of maladaptive behavior

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mistaken style of life

compensate feeling of inferiority by preoccupation with power and lack of social interest

Question 22

Adler therapy goals

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collaborative, help client understand style of life, reorient to beliefs and goals

Question 23

Adler technique

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lifestyle investigation to reveal info about client’s family constellation, fictional/hidden goals, and basic mistakes (distorted beliefs and attitudes)

Question 24

Systematic Training for Effective Teaching

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based on Adler’s - all behavior is goal directed and purposeful (need to belong)
behavior is driven by attention, power, revenge or to display deficiency

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Jung's analytic psychotherapy

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personality is consequence of conscious and unconsious

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Jung re: conscious

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oriented toward external world, governed by ego

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Jung re: unconscious

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made up of personal and collective unconscious

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Collective unconscious

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repository of latent memory traces that have been passed down from one generation to the next

Question 29

Archetypes

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primordial images that cause people to experience and understand phenomena in a universal way

Question 30

Archetype: self

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strive for unity of different parts of personality

Question 31

Archetype: persona

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public mask

Question 32

Archetype: shadow

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dark side of personality

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Archetype: anima and animus

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feminine and masculine aspects of personality

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Jung attitudes

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extraversion and introversion

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Jung psychological functions

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thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting

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Jung personality development

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continues through lifespan, most interested in growth after mid-30s

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individuation

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integration of conscious and unconscious aspects of psyche | important for development of wisdom

Question 38

Jung view of maladaptive behavior

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symptoms are unconscious messages to individual

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Jung goal of therapy

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re-bridge gap between conscious and personal and collective unconscious

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Jung techniques

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interpretation - dreamwork

Question 41

Jung transference

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projection of personal and collective unconscious | analysis is a crucial part of therapy

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Jung countertransference

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useful therapeutic tool used to provide information about what is occurring during therapy

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Jung view

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optimistic view of human nature emphasizes healthy aspects of personality focus on here-and-now

Question 44

Object relations theorists

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Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg

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Basic object relations theory

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object-seeking (relationships with others) is a basic inborn drive early relationships are emphasized

Question 46

Introjects

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child's internalized representations of objects that become part of the self and influence interactions with other people int eh future

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Mahler

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focuses on processes by which an infant assumes his or her own physical and psychological identity

Question 48

Mahler model of early development

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initial=normal infantile autism, first month, self-absorbed, oblivious normal symbiotic phase=child becomes aware of mother but unable to differentiate between me and not me separation-indivduation phase=4-5 months, object relations occur

Question 49

Separation-individuation subphases

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differentiation, practicing, reapproachment, object constance

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Object constancy

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Mahler child has developed permanent sense of self and object able to perceive others as both separate and related

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Mahler on maladaptive behavior

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traced back to problems during separation-individuation

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Kernberg on Borderline

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never integrated positive negative aspects of experience with others and switches back and forth between contradictory images

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Object relations therapy goals

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bring maladaptive unconscious relationship dynamics into consciousness provide client with support, acceptance and other conditions that restore client ability to relate to others in meaningful realistic way

Question 54

Object relations techniques

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focus splitting, projective identification, and other defense mechanisms