Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Theory

Question 1

This theory is deterministic in philosophy:
- by irrational forces
- unconscious motivation
- biological/instinctive drives
The goal of much of life is gaining pleasure and avoiding pain.

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Explain the philosophy of Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theory

Question 2

Emphasizes history, specifically the first 6 years, or the formative years

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What does Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theory emphasize?

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Neutral, or anonymous, also very time consuming (and costly!)

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Therapists role in Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theory

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The Id
The Superego
Ego

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Three parts of personality in Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theory

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Biological Component

• The demanding child who is ruled by the pleasure principle
• entirely unconscious
• condition at birth
• not rational, amoral
• life and death instincts (driven to satisfy instinctual needs)
• cannot tolerate tension and functions to discharge tension immediately

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Id

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Social Component

• judicial branch
• includes a person’s moral code
• is the action good or bad, right or wrong?
• the perfectionist
• not rational
• ruled by the morality principle
• seeks perfection
• represents authority (parents & society)
• Does NOT strive for Pleasure

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Superego

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Psychological Component

• “The traffic Cop”,
• governs, control’s, and regulates the personality
• ruled by the reality principle
• postpones pleasure
• get’s pleasure from other things
• objective/rational
• uses defense mechanisms to deal with anxiety
• mediator between the Id and Superego
• keeps things in balance
• based in reality
• realistic thinker

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Ego

Question 8

These come from the tension between the ID and Superego

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Defense Mechanisms

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Threatening instinctual impulses from the ID are removed from consciousness (perceptions distorted, memories forgotten) unconscious is pushed

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Repression

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Id is frustrated and protects the ego from frustration of the situation
-conscious

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Denial

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Unconsciously attributing one’s own unacceptable impulses, attitudes, and behaviors to other people

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Projection

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Justifying specific behaviors

• aids in softening the blow
• explaining away

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Rationalization

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Clinging to immature/inappropriate behaviors

-going back, crying, hiding

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Regression

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Shifting from a threatening object to a safer target (or scapegoat)
- yelling at kids

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Displacement

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Taking in and swallowing the values and standards of others

-identifying w/ parent’s beliefs

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Introjection

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• Free association
• Interpretation
• Dream Analysis
• Figure out Resistance

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Techniques used by Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theorists

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The client reports without censoring feelings or thoughts

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Free Association

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The therapists explains whatever is revealed

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Interpretation

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The therapist uses “royal road to the unconscious” to reveal it

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Dream Analysis

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• Reluctance to bring unconscious to consciousness
• transference
• counter-transference

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Figuring out Resistance

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An unconscious shifting

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Transference

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Inappropriate affect and response to client

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Countertransference

Question 23

Ages 0-2

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Freud’s Oral Developmental Stage

Erikson’s Trust vs. mistrust developmental stage

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2-4

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Freud’s anal developmental stage

Erikson’s autonomy vs. shame and doubt

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4-6

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Freud's phallic developmental stage | Eikson's initiative vs. guilt developmental stage

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6-12

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Freud's latency developmental stage | Erikson's industry vs. inferiority developmental stage

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12+

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Freud's genital developmental stage | Erikson's Identify vs. role confusion developmental stage

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Young adult

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Erikson's intimacy vs. isolation developmental stage

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Middle age

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Erikson's generativity vs stagnation developmental stage

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Senior years

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Erikson's integrity vs. despair developmental stage

Question 31

Principle aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure

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The Pleasure Principle

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The satisfaction of instinctual needs through awareness of and adjustment to environmental demands.

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The Reality Principle

Question 33

Stores all the experiences, ,memories, and repressed material

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The Unconscious

Question 34

- Dreams (symbolic representations of unconscious needs, wishes, and conflicts) - Slips of the tongue and forgetting - posthypnotic suggestions - material derived from free-association techniques - material derived from projective techniques - symbolic content of psychotic symptoms

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Unconscious processes

Question 35

A feeling of dread that results from repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experience that emerge to the surface of awareness

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Anxiety

Question 36

The fear of danger from the external world, and the level of such anxiety is proportionate to the degree of real threat. -neurotic and moral anxieties are evoked by threats to the "balance of power" within the person

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Reality Anxiety

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The fear that the instincts will get out of hand and cause one to do something for which one will be punished

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Neurotic Anxiety

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The fear of one's own conscience.

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Moral Anxiety