2. The Structure of Personality: The Id
The Demanding Child. Ruled by the pleasure principle.
2. The Structure of Personality: The Ego
The Traffic Cop. Ruled by the reality principle.
2. The Structure of Personality: The Superego
The Judge. Ruled by the moral principle.
3. Conscious and Unconscious Why is
Conscious: What's on the surface - i.e. logic, reality.
3. The Unconscious
Unconscious: What lies deep, below the surface i.e. drives, instincts. It is important because the therapist brings to life buried material to light and interprets its meaning. Unconscious is like an iceberg which 1) fears; 2) Violent notices; 3) Irationa
5. Anxiety
Feeling of dread resulting from repressed feelings, memories and desires. Develops out of conflict among the id, ego and superego to control psychic energy.
Three types of anxiety:
Reality Anxiety
Neurotic Anxiety
Moral Anxiety
6. Ego-Defense Mechanisms
Are normal behaviors which operate on an unconscious level and tend to deny or distort reality. Help the individual cope with anxiety and prevent the ego from being overwhelmed. Have adaptive value if they do not become a style of life to avoid facing rea
6. Ego-Defense Mechanisms (list)
Repression
Denial
Reaction Formation
Projection
Displacement
Rationalization
Sublimation
Regression
Introjection
Identification
Compensation
7. The Development of Personality
What is the importance of Freud:
First year: ORAL STAGE
Ages 1-3: ANAL STAGE
Ages 3-6: PHALLIC STAGE
Ages 6-12: LATENCY STAGE
Ages 12-60: GENITAL STAGE
What is the importance of Erikson's 8 stages?
What importance do these developmental stages play. To wh
11. Erikson's Psychosocial Perspective
(add stages w/ core conflict)
Psychosocial stages refer to Erickson's basic psychological and social tasks to be mastered from infancy through old age. Erikson's theory of development holds that psychosexual growth and psychosocial growth take place together. During each psychosocial
17. The Therapeutic Process
The goal is to make the unconscious conscious and strengthen the ego so that behavior is based more on reality and less on instinctual cravings or irrational guilt. Analysts use blank-screen approach to foster transference relationship. Analysts help clie
19. Psychoanalytic Phenomena
Transference occurs when the client reacts to the therapist as he or she did to an earlier significant other
Countertransference is the reaction of the therapist toward the client that may interfere with objectivity
Resistance is anything that works again
21. Psychoanalytic Techniques: Maintaining the Analytic Framework
Therapist uses a range of procedural and stylistic factors (e.g., the analyst's relative anonymity, the regularity and consistency of meetings).
21. Psychoanalytic Techniques: Analysis of Resistance What function does resistance serve? What are guidelines that you might use to understanding client's with resistance?What are some ways to deal with it rather than viewing it as negative force?
Therapist helps clients become aware of the reasons for their resistance so that they can deal with them.
21.Psychoanalytic Techniques: Analysis of Transference
Therapist uses this technique as a route to elucidating the client's intrapsychic life.
21.Free Association
Client reports immediately without censoring any feelings or thoughts.
21.Interpretation
Therapist points out, explains, and teaches the meanings of whatever is revealed.
21. Dream Analysis
Therapist uses the "royal road to the unconscious" to bring unconscious material to light.
18., 22. Application to Group Counseling What is the role of the leaders? What elements of group are different than individual? What are elements of the group experience?
Group work provides a rich framework for working through transference feelings. The group becomes a microcosm of members' everyday lives.
Projections onto the leader and members are valuable clues to unresolved conflicts within the person that can be iden
14. Jung's Analytical Psychology
An elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion.
Places central importance on psychological changes associated with midlife.
Achieving individuation�the harmonious integration of the conscio
15. Object Relations
Emphasizes interpersonal relationships as these are represented intrapsychically, and as they influence our interactions with people.
Self Psychology
Emphasizes how we use interpersonal relationships (self objects) to develop our own sense of self.
10. Relational Psychoanalysis
Emphasizes the interactive process between client and therapist. While classical psychoanalytic - Requires subjective interpretation. Relies heavily on client fantasy. Lengthy treatment may not be practical or affordable for many clients.
13. Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
Applies the principles of psychodynamic theory and therapy to treating selective disorders within 10 to 25 sessions.
23. Strengths from a Diversity Perspective - Strengths (awareness of bias
Erikson's psychosocial approach, with its emphasis on critical issues in stages of development, has particular application to people of color.
This approach stresses the value of intensive psychotherapy for therapists, to help them become aware of their o
23. Limitations from a Diversity Perspective
Perceived as being based on upper- and middle-class values.
Cost of treatment is prohibitive for many people.
Cultural expectations may lead clients to want more direction and structure from the professional.
Generally more concerned with long-term person
23. Contributions of Classical Analysis
Helps therapists understand: Human behavior from a psychosexual perspective, which can be a powerful framework when paired with the psychosocial perspective.That unfinished business can be worked through to provide a new ending to events that have restric
23. Limitations of Classical Analysis
This approach may not be appropriate for all cultures or socioeconomic groups. Deterministic focus does not emphasize current maladaptive behaviors. Minimizes role of the environment.
Requires subjective interpretation. Relies heavily on client fantasy. L
8. What is fixation?
Regarding personality development, describe the concept of fixation. What are the potential implications of fixation in a particular stage of adult life?
12. Describe Margaret Mahler's ideas about the
interactions between child and the mother in the rest
The ease with in which a child negotiates the process of separation-individualization influences their ability to enjoy trusting and emotionally fulfilling relationships in adult life.
The ease with in
16. How does the analytic approach describe the borderline personality and narcissistic personality? Describe the key features of personality disorders and object relations view and how they develop?
borderline and other personality disorders stem from lack of symbiosis, and individuation of an child. Either abandonment or the enmeshment
18. What is working-through and how does this account for the length of the therapy?
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