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Pysch 163 midterm
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
10/21/2011

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Josef Breuer
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Austrian physician whose works laid the foundation of psychoanalysis. worked with Anna O., talking cure, method of catharsis
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Brucke
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German physician and physiologist, Frueds past teacher, influenced frued that led to the development of the science of psychodynamics
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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studied hysteria with Frued, made is respectable, introduced ideogenesis
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Whilhelm Fliess
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wrote letters to Freud, very trusted friend, supporter, developed several idiosyncratic theories, such as reflex nasal neuroses, postulating a connection between the nose and the genitals
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Helmholtz School
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rebelled against the dominant view at the time, Brucke was a member
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T. Meynert
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German-Austrian neuropathologist, teacher for Freud who worked in his clinic. distanced himself from Freud because of the latter's involvement with practices such as hypnosis, also ridiculed Freud's idea of male hysteria
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hysteria
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organic disturbane with no organic source, behaves as though anatomy did not exist or had no knowledge of it
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obsessional neurosis
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sexual shock or sexual pleasure that is repressed into guilt
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ideogenesis
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power of ideas/thoughts
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incompatible ideas
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idea that gets in the way of ones self concept or self identity, disturbs them
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hypnoid states
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states in which your half aware of what your doing and whats happening around you
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catharsis
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experiencing the deep emotions often associated with events in the individual's past which had originally been repressed or ignored, and had never been adequately addressed or experienced.
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abreaction
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psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience in order to purge it of its emotional excesses; a type of catharsis.
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affect/idea
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joined in a normally functioning Psyche. the affect os the mental state, a felt emotion, a measure of psychic energy. an idea is the object of said mental state. in order to ignore an idea it must be detached from the affect. this energy must then be converted or displaced.
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conversion
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mechanism of neurology of defense. affect converted to bodily symptom (hysteria) unconscious
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displacement
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psychological state (emotion) experienced inappropriately, there is a false connection. example from lecture: guilt felt over masturbation felt as guilt for murders not committed by person in question. unconscious
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causal treatment
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treatment directed against the cause of a disease.
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symptomatic treatment
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medical therapy of a disease that only affects its symptoms, not its cause
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principle of neuronal intertia
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a principle of the functioning of the nervous system in which the ' neurones tend to divest themselves completely of the quantities of energy that they receive.
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principle of constancy
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the need for balance, equilibrium, constant level of physic energy
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free vs bond energy
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readily used energy vs stored, held back energy
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pleasure principle
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psychoanalytic concept describing people seeking pleasure and avoiding suffering (pain) in order to satisfy their biological and psychological needs
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reality principle
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psychoanalytic concept describing circumstantial reality compelling a man or a woman to defer instant gratification. the factual governor of the actions taken by the ego, and always opposes the pleasure principle of the Id.
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cathexis
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refers to the process that attaches psychic energy, essentially libido, to an object, whether this is the representation of a person, body part, or psychic element
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contact barrier
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a structural concept, an area between conscious and unconscious
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facilitation
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broadly used to describe any activity which makes tasks for others easy, The term facilitator is used in psychotherapy where the role is more to help group members become aware of the feelings they hold for one another
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repression
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the psychological attempt by an individual to repel one's own desires and impulses towards pleasurable instincts by excluding the desire from one's consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious
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defense neuroses
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hysteria brought about by the failure to abreact. compromise, as displacing or converting idea fails to cause actual forgetting of idea, idea unconsciously repressed and affect causes symptoms.
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actual neuroses
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result of current deleterious sexual acts, not symbolic symptoms. chemical rather than symbolic conversions due to inadequate sexual discharge.
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hallucinatory wish-fulfillment
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caused by built up endogenous energy. endogenous energy=inerstimuli (hunger). confusing memory with perception. primary process is dreams
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primary process
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aim is immediate pleasure which uses a free flow of energy and abides with the pleasure principle
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secondary process
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learning to delay gratification, uses bound energy, abides by the reality principle
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retroactive traumatization
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looking back on the trauma event is more upsetting than the original perception of the event at the present moment, leads to trauma after rethinking
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fantasy
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a situation imagined by an individual or group that has no basis in reality but expresses certain desires or aims on the part of its creator.
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need
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something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life
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desire
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sense of longing or object or hoping for an outcome. these emotions arise from a person mental state
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condensation
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one dream object stands for several associations and ideas; thus "dreams are brief, meagre and laconic in comparison with the range and wealth of the dream-thoughts."
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secondary revision
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part of the dream process....attempts to recuperate the problematic contents of the unconscious into a plausible story.
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considerations of representability
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transforms thoughts into visual elements
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overdetermination
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idea that a single observed effect is determined by multiple causes at once (any one of which alone might be enough to account for the effect)
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parapraxis
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faculty functions, errors in life, eg. freudian slip, misreading, etc. - all thought to have meaning
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reaction-formation
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a defensive process (defense mechanism) in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions and impulses are mastered by exaggeration (hypertrophy) of the directly opposing tendency
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somatic compliance
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brain tells body not to work and the body complies
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secondary gain
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a component of any disease, but is an external motivator. If a patient's disease allows him/her to miss work, gains him/her sympathy, or avoids a jail sentence, these would be examples of secondary gain.
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transference
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positive (affectionate) as well as negative (hostile) attitudes towards the analyst, who as a rule is put in the place of one or other of the patient's parents, lover, etc.
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Anna O
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Katharina
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Lucy R.
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Emma
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Dora
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resistance
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the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly oppose changing their behavior or refuse to discuss, remember, or think about presumably clinically relevant experiences.
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regression
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means "return" or "withdrawal"; it also signifies a retreat or a return to a less-evolved state, topographical regression, in the sense of the psychic system; temporal regression, in the case of a return to earlier psychic formations; and formal regression, where primitive modes of expression and representation replace the usual ones.
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layers of a dream
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mechanism of the dream work
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