Psychodynamic Perspective

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The Psychodynamic Perspective

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emphasizes unconscious mind on human behavior

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Sigmund Freud

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psychologist who believed in natural selection; The Unconscious Mind, The Structural Hypothesis, Psychosexual Stages; implies that thoughts and behaviors and not completely under our control

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William James

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believed consciousness is a process that allows us to consider the past, present, and future, and adapt our behavior to our circumstances; stream of consciousness for survival

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Conscious Mind

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Thoughts we are aware of at any given time

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Preconscious Mind

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Thoughts we are not aware of, but can easily be brought into our awareness

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Unconscious Mind

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Thoughts we are not aware of, which are expressed indirectly through dreams and slips of the tongue

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Freud’s Structural Hypothesis

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3 parts of personality: id, ego, superego

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ID

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pleasure principle regardless of consequences; linked to biological processes; immediate tension reduction

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ego

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mediator between the ID and superego; reason and logic; reality principle

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Superego

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moral principle; develops with progress through psychosexual stages; moral arm

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Psychoanalytic Dream Interpretation

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dreams represent a source of wish fulfillment by unconscious issues that are too anxiety-inducing to deal with in real life

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Manifest Content

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events we remember when we wake up is only symbolic of something the ego has repressed

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Latent content

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what the dream actually represents once the dream is interpreted by a trained psychoanalyst