Psychodynamic- Principles

Question 1

“The reality of the unconscious” is discerned through:

Answer 1

• Free Association
• Dreams
• Analysis of transference and relational patterns
• Analysis of projected or repudiated feelings (body language, payments, punctuality…)

Question 2

Transference

Answer 2

Distorted perceptions of an individual (usually the therapist) based on one’s past significant relationships, including the associated affects, cognitions and relational patterns that accompany such perceptions

Question 3

The ubiquity of defenses and resistance

Answer 3

Generally interpreted relationally e.g, Fairbarn’s “moral defense”

Question 4

Frame

Answer 4

A set structure that is valued and maintained (starting time, payments, ending time, location)

Question 5

Contemporary/relational psychodynamic began with

Answer 5

Object relations and plays a significant role in relational work

Question 6

Contemporary/relational=

Answer 6

OR+(interpersonal*intersubjective)

Question 7

(Object Relation) Fairbairns famous credo

Answer 7

Libido is not pleasure seeking, its object seeking

Question 8

Object Relations

Answer 8

A look at the internalized relational patterns/dymamics/constellations that were understood to have been formulated early in life and to have remained essentially ossified into the present day.

Question 9

Projective identification

Answer 9

the patient projects repudiated parts of her/himself onto others (e.g. the therapist), who then come to take on those projected qualities or experiences.

Question 10

The holding environment and corrective emotional experience

Answer 10

Therapeutic interventions that view the therapist as a new “object”. That is, such interventions involve the therapist providing the patient with some type of relating that she/he never adequately or properly received.

Question 11

Interpersonal theory

Answer 11

involves close, detailed analysis of interpersonal interaction. Such interaction is studied so closely because interpersonal and cultural interaction (and their biological correlates) are said to comprise the psyche/personality in its entirety.

Question 12

Intersubjective theory

Answer 12

intersubjective perspective (intersubjectivity) still views interpersonal interaction as the subject of analysis, but both parties are seen as inevitably influencing the other, and also as inevitably influenced by myriad other factors such as the limitations and function of language.

Question 13

Contemporary perspective as “two-person psychology”

Answer 13

▪ Object relations can be said to be a 1.5-person psychology in that the therapist’s personhood is considered, but only inasmuch as they represent old or bad objects from the patient’s constellation of object relations and come to be experienced as a new or good object.
▪ Contemporary psychoanalysis strives to be a 2-person psychology in that the therapist’s subjectivity is seen to be just as much of a factor to be considered as the patient’s. The therapist brings in their own biases, perspectives, values, history, etc., which influence the treatment.

Question 14

Countertransference

Answer 14

The analsand begins to represent someone from the analyst’s life
-this subjective experience is seen as valuable information of likely interpersonal patterns of the analysand (from a relational frame)

Question 15

Concordant countertransference

Answer 15

The therapist feeling what the patient may have felt as a child

Question 16

Complementary countertransference

Answer 16

The therapist feeling toward the patient what other people (e.g. the patient’s parents) may have felt towards the patient