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Psychotherapies
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03/21/2010

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Term
What is the id?
Definition
unconscious, involves instinctual sexual/agressive urges
Term
What is the ego?
Definition
serves as the mediator between the id and the external environment, using defense mechanism to control urges and distinguishes fantasy from reality testing
Term
What is the superego?
Definition
moral conscience
Term
What are defense mechanisms?
Definition
unconcious process used by the ego to protect oneself and relieve anxiety by keeping conflicts out of awareness
Term
What are the mature defenses? Who uses them?
Definition
Healthy adults use these:
-Altruism
-Humor
-Sublimation
-Supression
Term
What are the neurotic defenses and who uses them?
Definition
-in OCD patients, hysterical, stressed patients: (7)
-Controlling
-Displacement
-Intellectualization
-Isolation of affect
-Rationalization
-reaction formation
-repression
Term
What are the immature defenses and who uses them?
Definition
CHildren, teens, psychotic patients:
-acting out
-denial
-regression
-projection
Term
Performing acts that benefit others in order to vicariously experience pleasure
Definition
Altruism
-mature defense
Term
Person with unconscious urges to physically control others becomes a prison guard
Definition
Sublimation
-satisfying socially unacceptable impulses in an acceptable manner (channeling rather than preventing)
Term
Nurse who feels nauseated by an infected wound puts aside feelings of disgust to clean a wound and provide necessary patient care
Definition
Suppression
-purposely ignoring an unacceptable impulse or emotions in order to accomplish a task
-mature defense
Term
Sutdent who is angry at his mother talks back to his teacher the next day and refuses to obey her directions
Definition
Displacement
-neurotic defense: shifting emotions from an undesireable situation to one that is personally tolerable
Term
Woman describes the recent death of her son without emotion
Definition
Isolation of affect
-limiting the experience of feelings or emotions ass'd with a stressful life event in order to avoid anxiety
Term
"My boss fired me today because she's short tempered and impulsive, not because I haven't doen a good job"
Definition
Rationalization
-Creating explanations of an event in order to justify outcomes or behaviors and to make them acceptable
Term
Man who is in love with his coworker insults her
Definition
Reaction formation
Term
Preventing a thought feeling from entering consciousness
Definition
Repression
(suppression is a conscious act)
Term
Giving in to an impulse, even if socially inappropriate in order to avoid the anxiety of supressing that impulse
Definition
acting out
Term
Husband who is attracted to other women believes his wife is having an affair
Definition
Projection
-immature
-attributing objectionable thoughts or emotions to others
Term
What is the goal of psychoanalysis?
Definition
To resolve unconsious conflicts by bringing repressed experiences into awareness and integrating them into the pt's personality
-insight-oriented
Useful in tx of : Personality d/os, anxiety disotrders, OCD, problems with coping, anorexia, sexual disorders, dysthymia
Term
What is behavioral therapy?
Definition
seeks to tx psychiatric disease by helping pts change behaviors that contribute to their sxs
-Used for: phobias, sexual dysfunction, compulsions by replacing them with healthy alternatives
-examples: systemic desensitization, flooding and implosion, aversion therapy, token economy (rewards for behaviors), biofeedback (heart rate or BP measurements)
Term
What is the goal of cognitive therapy?
Definition
to correct faulty assumptions and negative feelings that exacerbate physical sxs
Term
Dialectical behavioral therapy is specific tx for
Definition
Borderline PD
-centers on coping
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