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Entirely unconscious, its existence and power can however be inferred from derivatives, such as thoughts acts and emotions

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The Id

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Unconscious aspects

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Include defensive processes like repressions, displacements, sublimation & rationalization

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Observing ego

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The part of the patients self that is conscious and rational and can comment on emotional experience, allies with therapist to see total self

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The superego is similar to the ego

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From which it arises partly conscious and partly unconscious

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Anxious reactions are caused by

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Defenses

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Defenses were reconceptualized

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As existing not only to protect a person from anxiety about id, ego and superego dangers but also to sustain a consistent, positively valued sense of self

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How were neurotic people viewed with psychological infrastructure?

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Viewed as suffering because their ego defenses were too automatic and inflexible, cutting them off from Id energies that could be put to creative use

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How were psychotic people viewed with psychological infrastructure?

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Suffered because their ego defenses were too weak, leaving them helplessly overwhelmed by primitive material from the id

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Therapy with a neurotic person

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Should involve weakening the defenses and getting access to the id so that it energies may be released for more constructive activity

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Therapy with a psychotic person

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Should aim at strengthening defenses, covering over primitive preoccupations, influencing realistically stressful circumstances so that they are less upsetting

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If someone has neurosis (neurotic)

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strong transference and counter transference reactions might appear

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If a character neurosis is present

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Then the therapeutic task would be more complicated, demanding and time consuming and the prognosis more guarded

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A lot of the time Freud called neurotic were actually

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Considered “borderline” or even psychotic features

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Neurotic range show

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Early in therapy a capacity for the therapeutic split between observing and the experiencing parts of the self

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Defense mechanisms

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they protect one against a nameless dread, even the frightening distortions that the defenses themselves may create are a lesser evil than the state of terror

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People whose personalities are organized at an essentially psychotic level

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Have grave difficulties with identity, so much so that they may not be fully sure that they exist

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Psychotic personalities are usually confused

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About reality & may be estranged from it

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Who lacks reflective functioning?

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People with psychotic tendencies

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Primary conflict in people with a potential for psychosis is literally existentialist

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Life versus death, existence versus obliteration, safety versus terror, their dreams are full of death and destruction

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Borderline patients can be hard to distinguish from

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Psychotic patients because they use primitive defenses and both suffer a basic defect in the sense of self

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Difference between borderline and psychotic

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Borderline is more inclined to speak about certain things whereas psychotics may get agitated

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How to make a differential diagnosis between borderline and psychotic levels of organization?

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Investigate the persons appreciation of conventional notions of reality by picking out some unusual feature of his or her self presentation

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Transferences in borderline clients tend to be

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Strong, um ambivalent and resistant to ordinary kinds of intervention

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Countertransference reactions with borderline clients

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Tend to be strong and upsetting

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CBT
How well the person learns from consequences including rewards, punishments and an absence of stimuli
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Four broad psychoanalytic theories
Ego psychology, objects relations theory, self psychology and attachment theory
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Ego psychology (unconscious and conscious)
Hysterical symptoms were seen as the result of repressed memories or events or ideas, hypothesized that psychotherapeutic intervention could lift repression, decision maker
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The id is only interested in discharging
Tension, it is controlled by the ego and super ego
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When the id, the ego and the super ego are battling
It causes anxiety, which alerts the ego that a defense mechanism is required
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When a defense happens what happens to id & ego
A compromise forms between them
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What do all defenses have in common?
The protection of the ego against instinctual demands from the id
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Freuds topography of mind
Preconscious, unconscious & conscious
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Preconscious
Mental contents can be brought into conscious awareness by shifting attention
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Unconscious
Mental contents that are censored because they are unacceptable and repressed (driving our behavior)
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Evidence of the unconscious
Dreams, parapraxes, posthypnotic suggestions, material derived from free association & projective techniques & symbolic content of psychotic symptoms
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Tripartite structure theory of the mind
Ego, id & super ego
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Ego
Keeps these thoughts in the unconscious by using defense mechanisms, if it’s not able to, these thought will come out and be preconscious or conscious
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Id
Completely unconscious and only interested in discharging tension, impulsive thoughts want to come out
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Superego
Mostly unconscious, protects us from allowing these thoughts of shame, impulsive thoughts live there
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Experiencing ego
Holds more deep down sense of therapeutic process (can feel what it feels like without knowing why)
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Ego alien/ego dystonic
This is easier to treat as observing ego vs ego syntonic
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With conflict what happens with unconscious forces and the ego
Unconscious forces seek expression and the ego attempts to prevent their expression
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Conflict in action
Conflict leads to a signal of anxiety which leads to a defense and leads to a compromise between id and superego and leads to the symptom or outcome
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Ego defense mechanisms
Are normal behaviors which operate on an unconscious level, help individual to cope with anxiety
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Primitive defense mechanisms
There are here at our early points of development, all unconscious
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Projective identification (primitive)
that involves splitting off parts of the self and projecting them onto another person
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Projection (primitive)
unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world
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Denial (primitive)
“Closing one’s eyes” to the existence of a threatening aspect of reality
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Dissociation (primitive)
involves a person disconnecting from their sense of self, surroundings, or a traumatic event
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Regression (primitive)
Returning to an earlier phase of development or functioning to avoid the conflicts and tensions associated with one’s present level of development
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Higher level neurotic defenses
Also still unconscious but more in the interactive conscious directive
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Introjection (higher)
a person unconsciously adopts the characteristics, attitudes, or ideas of others
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Displacement (higher)
Shifting feelings from one situation to another (angry at work and angry at home)
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Rationalization (higher)
Justification of unacceptable attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to make them tolerable to oneself
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Reaction formation (higher)
someone expresses the opposite of their true feelings or impulses to mask an unwanted thought or desire
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Repression (higher)
involves pushing unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or memories out of conscious awareness to avoid anxiety or threat to one's self-image
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Undoing (higher)
trying to cancel out or remove an unwanted thought or action by engaging in an opposite behavior
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Mature defenses
Means a person is doing good
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Humor (mature)
helps people deal with emotional conflicts and stressors
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Suppression (mature defenses)
a person consciously pushes away unwanted thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to avoid distress
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Asceticism (mature)
Denying yourself, finding a higher purpose than our earthly desires
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Altruism (higher)
Your ego is being diminished, they want to become something better
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Anticipation (mature)
it's a healthy way to cope with stress by proactively planning for potential problems and preparing to manage them before they arise
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Sublimation (mature)
redirecting unacceptable impulses or feelings into socially acceptable behaviors or actions (I’m angry I want to be a boxer)
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What is anxiety in conflict in action?
A signal and a symptom
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Levels of character development (1st dimension)
Included a persons degree of healthy psychological growth or pathology (psychotic, borderline, neurotic (normal))
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Level of character development (2nd dimension)
Identifies his or her type of character (paranoid, depressive, schizoid, etc)
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Psychotic (undifferentiated) (McWilliams)
Psychotic: At this level, individuals often struggle with reality testing, showing significant disconnection from reality.
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Borderline (separation-individuation) (McWilliams)
Individuals in this category experience instability in their self-image and relationships. They may oscillate between idealization and devaluation of others, struggle with emotional regulation, and often exhibit impulsive behaviors. Their sense of self can feel fragmented or fluctuating.
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Neurotic (oedipal) (McWilliams)
This level reflects a more integrated sense of self, though individuals still experience internal conflicts and anxiety.
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When does the ego develop?
Throughout childhood but over the lifespan
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How would a psychotic person respond to a break up?
Would pretend it’s not happening
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How would a neurotic person respond to a breakup?
They would say it’s not you, it’s me
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How would a borderline person respond to a breakup?
Would look like psychotic personality

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