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| The study of theory, assessment, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders. |
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| Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud) |
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| views conflict as central to human nature. Conscious vs Unconscious drives vying for expression. |
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| The part of the mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego. |
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| The part of the mind that contains he unconscious biological drives and wishes. At birth, mental life is only composed of the ID and it's biological drives, such as sex and aggression. |
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| The part of the mind that imposes on learned or socialized drives. Developed over time through moral and parental training. |
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| Pathological Behavior, dreams and unconscious behavior are all symptoms of underlying conflict, which are manifested when the ego does not find acceptable ways to express conflict. |
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| A type of psychoanalysis developed by Joseph Breuer where a patient reports thoughts without guidance or censure. AKA Catharsis or Abreaction |
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| when the therapist uses the patient's transference to help him or her resolve problems that were the result of previous relationships by correcting the emotional experience in the therapist-patient relationship. |
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| According to Freud, patients would react to therapist much like they reacted to their parents. |
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| refers to how a therapist feels about his or her patient. |
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| aims to lessen the unconscious pressures on the individual by making as much of this material conscious as possible. |
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| A way in which the ego protects itself from threatening unconscious material. |
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| not allowing threatening material into awareness. |
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| Justifying behavior or feelings that cause guilt. |
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| Accusing others of having one's own unacceptable feelings |
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| Shifting unacceptable feelings or actions to a less threatening recipient. |
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| Embracing feelings or behaviors opposite to the true threatening feelings that one has. |
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| Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another. |
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| Channeling threatening drives into acceptable outlets. |
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| imitating a central figure in one's life, such as a parent. |
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| Performing an often ritualistic activity in order to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives. |
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| An analyst's transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes onto the patient. |
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| Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish fulfillment. |
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| Manifest Content of Dreams |
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| the actual content of a dream |
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| the unconscious forces the dreams are trying to express. |
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| The pleasure principle aka Primary Process |
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| humans motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Operates under the ID |
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| The Reality Principle (secondary process) |
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| guided by the ego and responds to the demands of the environment by delaying gratification. |
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| Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences. |
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| Created Individual Theory (Alderian Theory): people are created as creative, social, and whole as opposed to Freud's more negative and structural approach. People are motivated by SOCIAL needs. |
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| aims to reduce feelings of inferiority and foster social interest and social contribution in patients. |
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| Ruling Dominant Type (choleric) |
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| Alderian personality type which is high in activity, but low in social contribution. Dominant. |
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| Getting Leaning Type (Phlegmatic) |
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| Alderian personality type which is low in activity, but high in social contribution. dependent. |
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| Avoiding type (melancholic) |
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| Alderian personality type which is low in activity and low in social contribution. withdrawn. |
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| Socially Useful Type (sanguine) |
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| High in activity and high in social contribution. healthy. |
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