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| Freud's theory and its application in therapy |
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| aware; cognizant; mental processes of which a person is aware |
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| mental content of which a person is currently unaware but that can readily be made conscious |
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| mental processes of which a person is unaware |
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| form of neurosis in which psychological conflicts are expressed in psysical symptoms (without actual psysical damage) |
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| the surface meaning of a dream |
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| the hidden, unconscioius meaning of a dream |
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| (plural;-es) a psychologically motivated error, more commonly called a Freudian slip |
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| a psychologically motivated error in speech, hearing, behavior, and so forth (e.g., forgetting the birthday of a disliked relative) |
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| combining of two or more images; characteristic of primary processes (e.g., in dreams) |
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| a test that presents ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots or pictures, so responses will be determined by the test taker's unconscious |
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| defense mechanism in which unacceptable impulses are made unconscious |
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| the most primitive structure of personality; the source of psychic energy |
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| the most mature structure of personality; mediates intrapsychic conflict and copes with the external world. |
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| structure of personality that is the internal voice of parental and societal restrictions |
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| the id's motivation to seek pleasure and to avoid pain |
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| psychic energy, derived from sexuality |
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| investment of psychic energy in an object |
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| unconscious mental functioning in which the id predominates; characterized by illogical, symbolic thought |
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| the ego's mode of functioning in which there is appropriate contact with the external world |
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| conscious mental functioning in which the ego predominates; characterized by logical thought |
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| conflict within the personality, as between id desires and superego restrictions |
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| ego strategies for coping with unconscious conflict |
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| primitive defense mechanism in which material that produces conflict is simply repressed |
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| defense mechanism in which a person thinks or behaves in a manner opposite to the unacceptable unconscious impulse |
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| defense mechanism in which a person's own unacceptable impulse is incorrectly thought to belong to someone else |
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| defense mechanism in which energy is transferred from one object or activity to another |
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| defense mechanism in which a person fuses or models after another person |
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| defense mechanism in which conflictful material is kept disconnected from other thoughts |
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| defense mechanism in which reasonable, conscious explanations are offered rather than true unconscious motivations |
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| defense mechanism in which a person focuses on thinking and avoids feeling |
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| defense mechanism in which impulses are expressed in socially acceptable ways |
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| the first psychosexual stage of development, from birth to age 1 |
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| the second psychosexual stage of development, from age 1 to 3 |
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| the third psychosexual stage of development, from age 3-5 |
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| failure to develop normally through a particular developmental stage |
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| personality type resulting from fixation in the first psychosexual stage; characterized by optimism, passivity, and dependency |
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| personality type resulting from fixation at age 1 to 3, characterized by orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy |
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| conflict that males experience fro age 3-5 involving sexual love for the mother and aggressive rivalry with the father |
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| fear that motivates male development at age 3 to 5 |
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| the adult psychosexual stage |
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| psychoanalytic technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind, permitting unconscious connections to be discovered |
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| therapeutic effect of a release of emotion when previously repressed material is made conscious |
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| conscious recognition of one's motivation and unconscious conflicts |
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| in therapy, the patient's displacement onto the therapist of feelings based on earlier experiences (e.g., with the patient's own parents) |
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| the analyst's reaction to the patient, as distorted by unresolved conflicts |
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