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Psychoanalysis
Exam 1
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Psychology
Graduate
03/07/2013

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According to Westen, what are the assumptions

of an Empirically Supported Therapy?

Definition

  • Psychological processes are highly malleable (all can be influenced)
  • Patients have one primary problem (not usually the case)
  • Psychological sympotoms can be understood and isolated from personality (not exactly)

 

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Psychic Determinism

Definition

 

 

The non-randomness of mental life.

(In the mind, nothing happens by chance)

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The Genetic View in Psychoanalysis

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Refers to adult mental processes as products of early childhood processes

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Frueds Basic assuptions about Psychoanalytical Theory

Definition

Frued belived:

  • Psychonalysis attempts to understand normal and abnormal psychological phenomena
  • Psychological determinism imparts causes and reasons for mental events
  • Psychological adaptation functions to maintain a steady state or homeostasis

 

Term

 

Freud Believed that (a hysteric) one suffering from

"Glove Anaesthesia" was the result of...

 

Definition

 

 

A problematic idea and likely just psychological

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Freud believed that hysterics suffered mainly from...

Definition

 

 

reminiscences

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A mental structure...

Definition

 

 

is slow to change.

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Frued's metapsychological points of view?

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Topographical, Dynamic, Economic

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What led Freud to abandon his theory of infantile seduction/trauma affect model?

Definition

 

  • Realization that it was unlikely for ALL patients to have
  • sexual abuse history
  • His own sexual desires for his mother
  • He thought of his fater as a dagerous rival
  • Analysis of his own dreams
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Un-Conscious refers to which system(s)?

Definition

 

 

The Pre-Conscious System

AND
The unconscious System

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The Unconscious is comprised of...
Definition

 

 

unsatisfied instinctual wishes

(Mental representations of the drives)

 

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Characteristics of an Instinctual Wish?

Definition

 

  • It seeks pleasurable discharge
  • Functions according to the pleasure principle
  • It may arouse conflict as it passes through the unconscious, preconscious and the conscious systems
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In the Topographical Model...

the development of transference and dreams represent what?

Definition

 

 

Derivatives of the unconscious

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What is the function of Repression?

Definition

 

 

To alleviate displeasure aroused by conflict of instinctual wishes

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Type of process the Unconscious uses?

Definition

 

 

The Primary Process

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The Pre-Conscious is considered...

Definition

 

 

 

Unconscious

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Elements of the Pre-Conscious?

Definition

a.      Primary process derivatives of the Unconscious seeking discharge


b.     Mental representations formed as a result of interaction with the external world


c.      Products of preconscious imaginative and cognitive activity

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Characteristics shared by the Conscious and the Pre-Conscious

Definition

 

 

a.      The ability to utilize secondary processes


b.     The concept of reality-testing

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The relationship between the Unconscious, Pre-Conscious and the Conscious can be described as...

 

Definition

 

 

a relatively flexible continuum

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PDM levels of personality organization

Definition

 

  • Healthy
  • Neurotic
  • Borderline
  • Psychotic
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PDM Continuum of treatments

Definition

 

 

 

Explaratory.........to..........Supportive

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Assessment of Personality functioning

(PDM facets)

Definition

 

  • Slef and others (Object relations? complexities?)
  • Relationships (maintained over time? stable? satisfying?)
  • Affect (full range? consistent? mature?)
  • Reality testing (whats real)
  • Stress response (Resourceful? Resilient?)
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Which personality disorder is missing from the PDM?

Why?

Definition

 

Borderline Personality Disorder

 

-Possible it doesnt hold up

-Possibly its traits are captured in other personality disorders

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A mental state characterized by awareness

Definition

 

 

Conscious

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Levels of arousal of brain centers (the 5 A's)

 


Definition

 

 

  • Awake
  • Alert
  • Aroused
  • Attentive
  • Aware

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Topographical

Definition
  • Mental concepts described in terms of their relationship to consciousness

 

  • Conscious, Pre-Conscious and Conscious (arranged on a verticl axis from surface to depth)
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Freuds Dynamic perspective

Definition

 

 

All psychic phenomena involve the continuous interplay of multiple psychological forces (or motivations) defined by their function and meaning

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Frueds Economic perspective

Definition

 

 

Mental events and structures are fueled by psychic energy

 

Account for relative intensities

  Peremptory forces of:

o   Wishes

 

o   Feelings

o   Ideas

o   Power of defensive operations

 

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Cathexis

Definition

 

The investment of drive energy

  • mental products
  • structures
  • activities
  • objects
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Condensation

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The amalgamation of two or more ideational elements cathected by the same charge of energy.

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Psychic Reality

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memories or real events and imagined events are not distinguished

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Manifest Dream

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The dream that is consciously remembered

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Latent Dream

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comprises uncosncious contents involved in the process of dream formation up to the production of the Dream Manisfest.

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