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What are the 3 assumptions?

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Influence of childhood experiences
The unconscious mind
Tripartite personality

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What is the influence of childhood experiences?

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Early childhood experiences shape our adult personality
Conflict and fixation
Fixation occur through frustration and overindulgence

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What stages are included in childhood experiences?

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Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

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What is frustration?

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The child’s needs have not been met

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What is overindulgence?

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The child’s needs have been more than satisfied
Child feels too comfortable to move onto the next stage

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What happens in the oral stage?

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0-18 months
Breastfeeding
Frustration = pessimism, envy, sarcasm
Overindulgence = optimism, gullibility, neediness

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What happens in the anal stage?

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18 months- 3 years
Potty training
Frustration = stubborn, possessive
Overindulgence = messy, disorganised, reckless

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What happens in the phallic stage?

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Odeipus complex leads to superego and gender identity
Self assured, vail, may have problems with sexuality

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What happens in latency?

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5 years - puberty
Knowledge and understanding of the world
No fixations as no pleasure focus

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What happens in genital?

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Puberty- death
Well developed adult personality
Well adjusted

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What is the unconscious mind?

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Irrational, ruled by pleasure seeking, repressed thoughts and feelings are kept
Unavailable to the conscious mind
Motivated by unconscious drives

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What is the conscious mind?

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What we are currently thinking and feeling, what we are aware of

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What is the preconscious mind?

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what we are not currently thinking about, could be aware, similar to memories

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How do the conflicts from the unconscious mind appear?

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Through fantasies and dreams
Disguised in shape of symbols
Ego defence mechanisms

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What do conflicts between the id, ego and superego cause?

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Anxiety

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How does the ego protect itself?

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With ego defences

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What defence mechanisms does the ego use?

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Displacement (transfer of impulses from one person to another)
Projection (undesirable thoughts attributed to someone else)
Repression (pushing painful memories deep down)

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How can you find out what happens in the unconscious mind?
What are they?

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Parapraxes
Slips of the tongue, accidental things we say which are on our unconscious mind

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What is the tripartite personality?

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Contains
Id
Ego
Superego

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What is the id?

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Impulsive and unconscious
Present at birth
Demand immediate satisfaction
Pleasure principle
Gain pleasure and gratification at any cost

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What is the ego?

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Conscious, rational part
Work out realistic ways of balancing the demand of the id in a socially acceptable way
Reality principle

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What is the superego?

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Sense of right and wrong
Seeks to perfect and civilise our behaviour

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What does the ego act as?

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A referee to resolve the conflict between the id and super ego

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What are the 4 main components of dream analysis?

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Dreams as wish fulfilment
Symbolic nature of dreams
Dream work
Role of the therapist

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What is dreams as wish fulfilment?
dreams are the unconscious fulfilment of wishes that could not be satisfied in the conscious mind allow expression of buried urges and desires the id = pleasure principle
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what is symbolic nature of dreams?
Manifest content Latent content Dreams allow us to fulfil our unconscious wishes and desires The actual content on a dream is expressed symbolically If we dreamed what we truly desired it may cause anxiety
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What is manifest content?
What we actually recall- the story of the dream
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What is latent content
The hidden meaning of the dream, underlying wish/ emotion
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What is dream work? How is it done?
The latent content is transformed into manifest content Through dream work processes
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What are dream work processes?
Processes are applied to repressed wishes to produce the content of the dream that is experienced
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What are the dream work processes?
Condensation Displacement Representation Symbolism Secondary elaboration
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What is condensation
Dream thoughts are rich in detail but are condensed to brief images in a dream, several associations
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What is displacement?
The emotional significance of a dream is separated from its real object to an entirely different one, the dream content is not censored
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What is representation
A thought is translated into visual images
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What is symbolism?
A symbol replaces an action, person or idea
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What is secondary elaboration?
Unconscious mind collects all different images, ties together to form a logical story, disguises the latent content
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What is the role of the therapist?
Decide the content Access unconscious thoughts and feelings Bring to conscious awareness and the unconscious conflict will be resolved
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What is a strength about the effectiveness of dream analysis
Solms used PET scans to highlight regions of the brain that were active whilst dreaming The rational part of the brain was inactive during REM, whereas centres concerned with memory and motivation were active (the ego becomes suspended while the id is free rein -> ego defences are down)
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What is a methodological issue in dream analysis?
Research into dreaming is conducted in sleep laboratories, questioned if the sleep is authentic, lack ecological validity Confounding variable = studies on dreaming done on humans who are deprived of sleep, can impair biological functions such as secretion of hormones and neurotransmitters
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What is an issue with subjective interpretation?
Role of therapist The dream being interpreted is subjective, may not be reliable information
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What is an ethical issue with a therapist and client relationship?
Potential power imbalance Patient becomes reliant on the therapist Lead to overdependence More true in people who experience depression
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What is an ethical issue with false memory syndrome?
False memory of traumatic experiences False memories can come to light during psychoanalysis Patient is likely to straight away believe their therapist Toon = therapists induce false memories so that the therapy will take longer, will make more financial gain
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What is an ethical issue with emotional harm?
A therapist may guide a client towards an insight that is emotionally distressing Distress may cause greater problems Psychotherpists must warn their patients of this potential issue
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What did Matt and Navarro say about the effectiveness of dream analysis?
Review of 63 meta analyses on the effect of psychotherapy found 75% of people receiving dream analysis showed improvements
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What did Hobson and McCarley say about the effectiveness of dreams
Dreams are nothing but commands sent from the brain, simply a form of thinking that happens while we sleep
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What is Bowlbys study called?
Bowlbys 44 Juvenile Thieves Study 1944
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What is the methodology of bowlby?
5-17 years old 31 males 13 females 22 grade IV thieves (stealing for a long time) 4 grade 1 thieves (one theft) Control group = 44 similar age, IQ, sex but didn’t steal
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What are the procedures for Bowlby?
Each child given a mental test for intelligence Noted emotional attitude of the child Interviewed for early psychiatric history Bowlby interviewed child and mother Reviewed results, child met with psychiatrist weekly on period of 6 months Mothers talked about problems with social worker
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What are the findings of Bowlby?
6 character types= Normal Depressed Circular Hyperthymic Affection less Schizoid
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What are the conclusions of Bowlby?
Childhood experiences effect later behaviours eg maternal deprivation Social and economic factors = link to poverty Prevent separation, provide good substitute emotional care
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What are the ethical issues with Bowlby, evaluation
No confidentiality First name and last initial used, provided details of their life Initials or numbers should have been used No valid consent Age 5-17 years old 1944 ethical guidelines not as stringent
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Social implications Bowlby
2015 parental leave, parents can have a strong bond with their child and have their time off Financial implications Under 2 = £252 per week for full time nursery, may not be financially viable for parents to return to work as childcare costs outweigh money earnt Gov scheme allows parents to claim tax relief on child care costs = better for the economy
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Evaluation of methodology in Bowlby
Based on recollections of the parents From many years below = not accurate = lack of internal validity Case study = qualitative data, history of juvinelles = high external and ecological validity
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Evaluation of procedures, Bowlby
Lacks population validity, all control and p’s were emotionally disturbed, lack of external validity Cause and effect cannot be established, causal relationship between prolonged separation and emotional disturbance, threatens internal validity

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