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Psychoanalytic/Structural Theory
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Social Work
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06/25/2019

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Term
Psychoanalytic Theory
Definition
Sigmund Freud

-Client is seen as the product of his past, treatment involves dealing with repressed material in the unconscious.

Three Levels if Awareness
Term
Conscious Level
Definition
Info client gives attention to at any given time
Term
Preconscious Level
Definition
Info Outside the client's attention but readily available.
Term
Unconscious Level
Definition
Contains thoughts, eel sings, desires, memories that the client does not have awareness of but influences aspects of everyday life
Term
Structural Theory
Definition
Sigmund Freud

Personality has three components:
ID, EGO and SUPEREGO
Term
ID
Definition
"Pleasure Principle" - UNCONSCIOUS source of desires
-biological urges - survival, sex, aggression, pleasure in order to avoid pain

*Devil*
Term
EGO
Definition
-"Reality Principle" - seeks to satisfy basic desires in SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE ways

-manages conflict between ID and world constraints, prevents ID's social inappropriateness.

*Person*
Term
SUPEREGO
Definition
MORAL & ETHICAL - ability to choose right from wrong

*Angel*
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