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Freudian psychoanalysis worldview

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essentially pessimistic, deterministic, mechanistic, and reductionistic

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Freud’s structural theory personality components

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id, ego, superego

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id - 5 characteristics

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  • present at birth
  • life and death instincts
  • source of all psychic energy
  • pleasure principle
  • seeks immediate gratification of its instinctual drives and needs
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ego - 7 characteristics

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  • develops at about six months of age
  • response to the id’s inability to gratify all of its needs
  • operates on the basis of the reality principle
  • defers gratification
  • employs secondary process thinking
  • realistic, rational thinking and planning
  • mediate conflicting demands of the id, reality and superego
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superego - 4 characteristics

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  • develops at four and five years
  • internalization of society’s values and standards
  • conveyed through rewards and punishments
  • attempts to permanently block the id’s socially unacceptable impulses
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Freud’s developmental theory

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proposes that personality is formed during childhood as the result of experiences that occur during five predetermined psychosexual stages of development

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psychosexual stages

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oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital

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Freud’s definition of libido

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id’s sexual energy

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Freud’s definition of anxiety

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unpleasant feeling linked with excitement of the autonomic nervous system to alert the ego to internal or external threats

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defense mechanisms definition

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  • occur when the ego is unable to ward off danger through rational, realistic means
  • operate on an unconscious level and serve to deny or distort reality
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repression

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underlies all other defense mechanisms and occurs when the id’s drives and needs are excluded from conscious awareness by maintaining them in the unconscious

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types of defense mechanisms

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repression, reaction formation, projection

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reaction formation

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avoiding an anxiety-evoking impulse by expressing its opposite

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projection

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threatening impulse is attributed to another person or other external source

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psychodynamic view of maladaptive behavior

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psychopathology stems from an unconscious, unresolved conflict that occurred during childhood

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psychodynamic therapy goals

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reduce or eliminate pathological symptoms by bringing the unconscious into conscious awareness and integrating previously repressed material into the personality

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psychodynamic techniques

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analysis, of client’s free associations, dreams, resistances, and transferences

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psychic determinism

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the belief that all behaviors are meaningful and serve some psychological function

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parapraxes

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slips of the tongue

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steps of psychodynamic analysis

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confrontation, clarification, interpretation, and working through

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Confrontation

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making statements that help the client see his or her behavior in a new way

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clarification

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clarifying the client’s feelings and restating his/her remarks in clearer terms

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interpretation

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explicitly connecting current behavior to unconscious processes

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Catharsis

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emotional release resulting from the recall of unconscious material

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Working through
allows the client to gradually assimilate new insights into his or her personality
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Recent modifications to the Freudian approach
more collaborative, egalitarian view of the therapeutic relationship and a reconceptualization of transference and countertransference
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brief psychodynamic therapies
Prochaska and Norcross (2003) time-limited, target a specific interpersonal problem that is usually identified in the first session, begin using interpretation early in the therapeutic relationship, and emphasize the development of a strong working alliance
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teleological approach
regards behavior as being largely motivated by a person’s future goals, rather than determined by past events
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Adler’s individual psychology key concepts
Inferiority feelings, striving for superiority, style of life, and social interest
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Inferiority feelings
develop during childhood as the result of real or perceived biological, psychological, or social weaknesses
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striving for superiority
an inherent tendency toward “perfect completion”
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style of life
- specific ways a person chooses to compensate for inferiority and achieve superiority - unifies the various aspects of the personality - healthy or mistaken - affected by early experiences - established by 4-5yo
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healthy style of life
goals that reflect optimism, confidence, and concern about the welfare of others
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mistaken style of life
goals reflecting self-centeredness, competitiveness, and striving for personal power
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Adler - pampered children
do not develop social feelings
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Adler - neglected children
dominated by a need for revenge
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Adler's Individual Psychology View of Maladaptive Behavior
represent a mistaken style of life, characterized by maladaptive attempts to compensate for feelings of inferiority, a preoccupation with achieving personal power, and a lack of social interest
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Adler's Individual Psychology | Therapy Goals and Techniques
- establishing a collaborative relationship - identify and understand their style of life - reorienting the client’s beliefs and goals so that they support a more adaptive lifestyle
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lifestyle investigation
yields information about the client’s family constellation, fictional (hidden) goals, and “basic mistakes” (distorted beliefs and attitudes)
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Adler's Individual Psychology Application
``` individual psychotherapy group therapy family and marital counseling parent education teacher-student relationships ```
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Systematic Training for Effective Teaching
based on Adler’s approach and assumes that all behavior is goal-directed and purposeful misbehavior of young children is viewed as having one of four goals — attention, power, revenge, or to display deficiency
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Jung’s definition of libido
general psychic energy
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Jung's beliefs about behavior
determined not only by past events but also by future goals and aspirations
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Jung’s analytical psychotherapy view on personality
consequence of both conscious and unconscious factors
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Jung conscious factors
oriented toward the external world, is governed by the ego, and represents the individual’s thoughts, ideas, feelings, sensory perceptions, and memories
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Jung unconscious factors
made up of the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious
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personal unconscious
contains experiences that were unconsciously perceived or were once conscious but are now repressed or forgotten
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collective unconscious
repository of latent memory traces that have been passed down from one generation to the next
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archetypes
“primordial images” that cause people to experience and understand certain phenomena in a universal way
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personality development Archetypes
``` the self persona shadow anima animus ```
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the self
represents a striving for a unity of the | different parts of the personality
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persona
public mask
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shadow
the “dark side” of the personality
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anima
feminine aspects of the personality
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animus
masculine aspects of the personality
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Jung personality attitudes
extraversion and introversion
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Jung four basic psychological functions
thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting
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individuation
integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche that leads to the development of a unique identity development of wisdom, which occurs in the later years when a person’s interests turn toward spiritual and philosophical issues
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Jung View of Maladaptive Behavior
symptoms are “unconscious messages to the individual that something is awry with him ... [and that present] him with a task that demands to be fulfilled"
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Jung’s analytical psychotherapy Goal
rebridge the gap between the conscious and the personal and collective unconscious
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Jung’s analytical psychotherapy Techniques
interpretations that are designed to help the client become aware of his or her inner world dreamwork
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Jung opinion on dreams
represent an unconscious message to the individual that is revealed in a symbolic form
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Jung definition of transference
a projection of the personal and collective unconscious
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Object Relations Theory
- consider object-seeking (relationships with others) to be a basic inborn drive - emphasize a child’s early relationships with objects, especially the child’s internalized representations (“introjects”) of objects and object relations that become part of the self and influence interactions with other people in the future
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object-relations theorists
Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret Mahler, and Otto Kernberg
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Mahler Personality Theory
focuses on the processes by which an infant assumes his or her own physical and psychological identity normal infantile autism, normal symbiotic phase, separation-individuation phase
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normal infantile autism
first month of life | infant is self-absorbed and essentially oblivious to the external environment
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normal symbiotic phase
the child becomes aware of the mother but is unable to differentiate between “me” and “not-me”
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separation-individuation phase
begins at four to five months of age and is composed of four overlapping subphases: differentiation, practicing, reapproachement, and object constancy
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object-relations View of Maladaptive Behavior
the result of abnormalities in early object relations Kernberg - inadequate resolution of splitting mental representations of the self and others into “good” and “bad" Mahler - problems that occurred during separation-individuation
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object-relations Therapy Goals
opportunity to provide the client with support, acceptance, and other conditions that restore the client’s ability to relate to others in meaningful, realistic ways bring “maladaptive unconscious relationship dynamics into consciousness”
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object-relations Therapy Techniques
primary focus is on splitting, projective identification, and other defense mechanisms that serve to maintain pathological object relations

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