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| psychoanalytical structure |
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how the mind is structured and how it thinks, both consciously and unconsciously.
Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalytical theory. |
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| freud made a simple fundemental discovery: |
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| when his paitents talked about thier psychological problems, sometimes, that in itself was enough to help or even cure them. |
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| instructing patients to say whatever comes to their mind, for the same purpose of hypmosis ( to get them to talk bout difficult topics) |
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| Freud was coined by this term by some of his paitents, because if nothing seemed to work, talking seemd to help. |
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| Freud thought he knew why talking helped because of these reasons: |
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- b/c making thoughts and fears explicit by saying them out loud brings them into the open. The rational mind can now deal with them.
- a psychotherapist can provide emotional support during the patients difficult task of trying to figure out what is going on.
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| psychoanalysis and humanistic therapy have in common: |
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| they both try to understand themselves begining their psychological endevor. |
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| an important part of psychoanalytical training.... |
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| is being psychoanalized yourself. |
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| Key 4 ideas of psychoanalysis: |
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- psychic determinism
- internal structure
- psychic conflict
- mental energy
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- determinism ( a basic tenet of science) is the idea that everything that happens has a cause that in principle, that mayby not always in practice, it can be identified.
- the assumption that everything that happens in a persons mind, that way everything that a person thinks and does has a specific cause.
- all that is needed is diligence, insight and of course the proper psychoanalytic framework.
- psychoanalytical perspective : not evrtyhing that seems to be contridictory of the mind and behavior can be resolved and nothing is ever accidental.
- the assumption of of psychicdeterminism, therefore leads directly to the conclusion that many important mental processes are unconsious.
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the assumption that the mind is made up of parts that function indepently and in some cases conflict with one another.
Brain and mind; the brain is a physical organ
The mind is the psychological result of what the body does |
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| in psychoanalytical theory the mind is divided up into 3 parts: |
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- Id
- Ego
- Superego
These are terms that refer to the irrational and emotional part of the mind, the rational part of the mind and the moral part of the mind. |
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| psychic conflict and compromise |
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the mind is divided intro 3 parts but conflict with each other; just like internal structure but the main idea is to find a COMPROMISE FORMATION:
ego: main job is to find the middle ground ( to be the rational one) between the the Id (whom is motivation and demanding of what it wants right now) and the super ego is more based on morals and practicality. |
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| is this idea that we run on energy of coginition from zero- 100, if you spend 40% of you energy in anxeity and worry over lets say a break up, then you will only have 60% left to have on other things....leaving you with the psychoanalytists to try and help you have that 40% back of yourself so you are not wasting mental energy. |
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| life; living; you have fixed energy that you have to live and this is a fixed and finiate amount that is avialble to you at any given moment. |
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| reformation of modern psychoanalysis in regards to mental energy |
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| the fact that they think in modern times it might not be actual mental energy but actually the minds capacity to proces information; whether it is mental energy or the minds capacity to process info, they will try to elviate the anxiety so you can focus on the daily life challenges.... |
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| controversey of psychoanaylisis |
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- people are not particurally grateful to be anaylyzed. sharing your insights to why your friend really did somethign can stir up trouble. it can produce rriestibel thoughts to anaylze the behavior and thoughts of those around us. Freud thought this was true that if your insights are accurate.
- keep your cleaver insights of other people to yourself, if your wrong it will make them mad, if your right it will make them madder.
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•Timing: about 3 to 7 years
•Physical focus: sexual organs
•Basic task: coming to terms with sex differences and their implications
•Psychological themes
–Gender identity and sexuality: figure out what it means to be a boy or girl; develop a self-image as masculine or feminine
–Identification: taking on many of the same-sex parent’s attitudes, values, and ways of relating to the opposite sex
–Love, fear, and jealousy |
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| phallic stage psychological development |
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Development of morality, conscience, and the Superego
by-product of identification with parent
superego passes moral judgments on the id and ego
Adult character type:
rigid moral code (asexual)
lack of moral code (promiscuous)
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•Timing: about 7 years to puberty
•A break from development
•Libido interests are suppressed
•Concentrate on learning the tasks of childhood
•Ego and superego contribute to this calm period |
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–A girl is initially attached to her mother. She discovers that she does not have a penis and believes her mother “castrated” her. She becomes attached to her father and resents her mother. As a result, she begins to identify with and emulate her mother out of fear of losing her mother’s love. |
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–Boy falls in love with mother and wants to compete with father for her. He fears his father will castrate him, leading to identification with father because boy realizes he is too strong. |
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•Development of the Ego
•Two ways things can go wrong: unreasonable expectations and never demanding control of urges
•Adult character type:
–Overcontrolled: obsessive, compulsive, stingy, orderly, rigid, subservient to authority, unable to tolerate disorganization or ambiguity
–Undercontrolled: unable to do anything on time, chaotic, disorganized, compulsive need to defy authority |
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•Timing: about 18 months to 3 years
•Physical focus: anus and organs of elimination
•Psychological theme: self-control and obedience
–Controlling emotions
–Controlling behaviors, such as toilet training, following orders, and inappropriate urges |
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| freud thought there might be an ________of the uncounsious mind, in which certain symbols meant the same thing to everybody in the world. |
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| can compress several ideas into one; an image of a houe or a woman might consolidate a complex set of memories, thoughts, and emotions----> then leads to through symbolization one thing might stand in for another. |
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| 3 levels of conscious mind form freud called the topographic model |
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- concious mind
- pre-conscious
- unconcious
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| smallest, topmost, and least important layer, the part of mental functioning you can observe when you simply turn your attention inward |
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| consists of ideas you are not thinking about at the moment, but that you can bring to consiousness easily |
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| most important layer the unconsciousness |
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| which includes all of the id, superego, ego. it is buried deep only way to bring ti to the surface is by digging. |
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| the developmental bond btwn therpuatic alliance, therpist and patient, the transference is the tendency to bring ways of thinking, feeling and behaving that developed toward one important person into another person relationship |
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| Vanishing the past from the preset moment |
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Instigate of the opposite of forbidden thoughts, feelings, and impulses
Common with especially strong sources of anxiety
Usually illogically strong and out of proportion
Disconnect w/your self insides....And how they actually portray it to the world |
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