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What is Freud’s definition of Anxiety?

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The feeling of helplessness following birth is the basis of all subsequent feelings of anxiety

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Define realistic anxiety

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the basic fear from the physical world

3
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Define moral anxiety

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Fear of punishment from the internalized social world of the Superego

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Define Neurotic anxiety

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The fear that one will be punished externally for impulsive actions

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What do we use to terminate thoughts or actions that cause anxiety?

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Ego-defense mechanisms

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Define the ego defense mechanism of Denial

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refusing to recognize objective events in conscious awareness

7
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Define the ego defense mechanism of repression

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Being unable to reflect or remember past events or impulses

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Define the ego defense mechanism of Displacement

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Redirecting stress from original target to someone/something else

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Define the ego defense mechanism of Projection

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Attributing personally undesirable thoughts and/ or feelings to others

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Define the ego defense mechanism of Rationalization

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Making excuses by distorting the threatening facts

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Define the ego defense mechanism of reaction formation

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Transforming unacceptable thoughts or urges into their exact opposite

12
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Define the ego defense mechanism of intellectualization

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Detaching emotion from a taxing experience by analyzing it

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Define the ego defense mechanism of sublimation

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Channeling unacceptable impulses into positive behaviour or artistic forms of expression

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Define the ego defense mechanism of Regression

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During a time of stress, reverting back to an earlier stage of development when life was presumably simpler

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Define free association

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The patient says whatever comes to mind, and the doctor listens to recognize defenses, resistance, and symptoms as self-punishment

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Define catharsis

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Emotional relief that results from a person pondering a pathogenic idea consciously

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Define resitance

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patient’s unwillingness to ponder and report anxiety producing thoughts

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Define working through

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by talking, examining, and re-examining the ways in which the patient resists treatment by unconsciously trying to obstruct or divert the analysis

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Define transference

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Phenomenon where a patient begins to respond to the therapist as if he/she were an important person in the patient’s life such as the patient’s mother or father

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Define counter-transference

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Phenomenon that sometimes occurs during therapy in which the therapist becomes emotionally involved with the patient

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What did Freud see as the main vehicle of healing?

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Transference neurosis

22
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Define parapaxes

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clues for the unconscious conflicts

23
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Define Eros

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The life instincts

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Define libido

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the motivational or psychic energy of the eros

25
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Define Thanatos

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The “death” instinct, to return to a place of non-struggle