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| List the four basic concepts of psychoanalysis. |
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| psychic determinism, internal structure, psychic conflict, mental energy |
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| Everything that happens in a person's mind - everything they think and do - has a specific cause that can be discovered with the right tools. Free will doesn't exist. |
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| Since we're not aware of the reason for everything we do, but there must be one, we must have an _______________. |
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| What's the difference between the mind and the brain? |
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| The brain is a physical structure; the mind is the psychological result of what the brain does. |
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| What are the three parts of the mind called and what are they? |
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| id (emotional part), ego (rational part), and superego (moral part) |
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| Define "psychic conflict." |
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| "the phenomenon of one part of the mind being at cross-purposes with another part if the mind" |
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| The ____ is responsible for ________________, which is finding a balance among the many different things a person wants at one time. This is what the person actually thinks and does. |
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| ego; compromise formation |
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| What is psychic energy, what is another name for it, and how has the conception of it changed over time. |
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| Psychic energy is the energy that the mind spends doing one thing. If it's being used for one process, it is unavailable for another. It's also called libido. Today, we think of psychic energy more in terms of the mind's capacity for information than Freud did. |
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| Why has Freud been criticized? |
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| Back in the day, he was criticized because he focused on sex. now he's criticized because his theories are unscientific. |
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| How did Freud gain access to his patients' unconscious? |
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| at first, using hypnosis; later through free-association - thus his therapy was called "the talking cure"; also through slips of the tongue, lapses in memory, and dream analysis. |
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| How does accessing the unconscious help patients? |
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| It brings the issues into the reaches of the conscious mind so that they can be dealt with rationally; it provides emotional support during the process of working through the issues. |
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| According to Freud, what are people's two fundamental motives? |
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| (1)libido, or life drive (2)thanatos, the death drive |
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| Dr. Saiger will not accept "sex drive" as an answer. Libido is the drive to create, nurture, and enjoy life. |
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| Everything implies and requires its opposite. |
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| the doctrine of opposites |
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| There are three aspects to each of Freud's stages: |
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| (1)a physical focus, where energy is focused and gratification obtained (2)a psychological theme, related to where the physical focus is and what societal demands are being made on the child (3) an adult character type associated with fixation on any of the stages |
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| oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital |
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| People who are weird about dependence and passivity: (1)someone who won't accept help from anyone (2)someone who is completely passive and just waits for things to happen for him without doing anything about them. |
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| The anal stage is about ... |
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| self-control and obedience |
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| The oral stage is about ... |
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| dependence, passivity/activity |
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| is either hyper-uptight and organized or completely disorganized. |
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| What's going on during the phallic stage, in Funder's cleaned-up version? |
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| Kids are figuring out what it means to be a boy or girl. Generally, they look around and think, "To be a boy, act like Dad, to be a girl, act like Mom;" so they act like the same-sex parent, and this is called identification. They might also think about what it would be like to have a relationship with the opposite-sex parent, and feel guilty about this. |
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| taking on the behavior, attitudes, attitudes of the same-sex parent |
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| Male children want to kill their fathers and sleep with their mothers (... at least Freud did). |
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| What's going on during the latency stage? |
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| You get to take a break and learn what you need to know for adult life - until puberty hits. |
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| A stage that must be attained; the development of mature attitudes about sexuality and other aspects of adulthood. |
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| The genital character is ... |
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| The genital stage is about ... |
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| the ability to create and nurture life. |
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| Freud's definition of mental health is ... |
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| the ability to love and to work |
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| When you have to leave psychic energy, or libido, behind at a psychosexual stage, that's called _________, and that's how you get the "characters." |
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| Describe how the development of id, ego, and superego take place over the course of the psychosexual stages. |
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| At first, you're all id, then you learn to control yourself in the anal stage, and thus develop ego, then when you identify with your parent in the phallic stage, you develop a superego. |
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| If you are a fixated character, under stress you will go back to the stage you got stuck on. This is called ... |
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| What are the two types of thinking according to Freud? |
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| primary process thinking and secondary process thinking |
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| Primary process thinking is associated with which part of the mind? What is this type of thinking? |
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| The id; it is thinking about the immediate gratification of every desire without worries, negatives, qualifications, planning. |
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| Primary process thinking can tie different parts of your life together through the process of _________. In this process, you might associate your father with authority and transfer your anger at him to your hatred of authority. |
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| In primary process thinking, when an idea is chuck full of many different memories, ideas, emotions. |
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| Condensation (think "condensed," not "cold beer") |
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| In primary process thinking, when one thing stands for another. |
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| The type of thinking that we think of as "thinking," Freud called ... |
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| secondary process thinking. |
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| Did Freud believe in universal symbols? |
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| At first, but then he decided that symbols are different for everyone. |
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| Freud's model of the layers of consciousness is called a ... |
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| What are the three parts of Freud's topographical model? |
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| conscious, preconscious, subconscious |
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| the smallest part of the topographical map |
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| the largest part of the topographical map |
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| The unconscious includes ... |
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| all of the id and superego, and most of the ego. |
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| The ideas you observe when you just pay attention to your thoughts is called the ... |
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| Things you aren't thinking about, but could call to mind if I asked you - like where your car is parked - are in the ... |
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| Freud called running away from your psychological problems a ... |
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| the necessary emotional bond between therapist and patient |
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| developing feelings for the therapist based on other important relationships |
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| developing feelings for your patient |
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| For Freud, what is the point of psychoanalysis - therapy or understanding the human mind? |
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| understanding the human mind |
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