Background Quiz Classical Psychoanalytic Theory

What is the goal of classic psychoanalytic theory?

The process of making unconscious processes conscious for the benefit of healing and character reorganization.

What does the unconscious store in classic psychoanalytic theory?

Experiences, memories, and repressed materials.

What happens to memories without therapy in classic psychoanalytic theory?

They either remain in the unconscious or emerge in symbolic or distorted ways (e.g., dreams, symptoms).

How does classic psychoanalytic theory aim to strengthen the ego?

By achieving equilibrium between the id and the superego.

What is transference in classic psychoanalytic theory?

the transfer of feelings experienced in an earlier

relationship to people (the therapist) in the present.

Regarding transference, in classic psychoanalytic theory therapist ________________ is key.

Neutrality

In classic psychoanalytic theory, working in the transference helped

illuminate defenses and underlying libidinal and aggressive forces. When these feelings become conscious, the patient can "resolve" unfinished business from past relationship.

Regarding transference, Freud believed the therapist acted as a ____________ ______________.

Blank screen

What is countertransference in classic psychoanalytic theory?

a therapist's reaction to clients. May illuminate therapist's own unresolved conflict.

What is important for the therapist to know regarding countertransference in classic psychoanalytic theory?

➤Recognize therapist's own unmet needs - cannot be

resolved by client

➤Keep objectivity

➤Can be helpful in understanding the client's world

(Client - becomes too much, and people pull away)

What is the id in classic psychoanalytic theory?

Impulses/Instincts

Pleasure Principle-avoid

pain, gain pleasures

Satisfy Instinctual Needs

"Spoiled Brat" of personality

Mostly out of awareness

What is the ego in classic psychoanalytic theory?

Grand Mediator

Governs personality

Controls consciousness

Seat of intelligence

What is the superego in classic psychoanalytic theory?

Prohibitions & "oughts"

"Judicial Branch"

Moral codes: good/bad

Traditional values handed down

Strives for perfection

In psychoanalytic theory what is the pleasure principle?

avoid pain and seek pleasure; operated by the id.

What are some classic psychoanalytic theory interventions?

Free Association, analysis and interpretation, dream analysis, abreaction, dealing with resistance

What are Defense mechanisms (Psychoanalysis)?

Ways we behave or think to protect ourselves from conflict or anxiety; ways the ego fights off instinctual outbursts of the id or warnings that come from the superego.

What are some Healthy, Adaptive Defense Mechanisms?

Affiliation, Altruism, humor, conscious suppression, sublimation

What are some Unhealthy, Maladaptive Defense Mechanisms?

Acting out, avoidance, denial, displacement,dissociation, idealization, identification, intellectualization, passive aggressive, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, resistance, somatization, splitting

What was Jung's view of the unconscious?

Jung viewed the unconscious as a powerful part of the psyche containing repressed material, but also as a source of creativity, spirituality, and emotional growth. It includes memories, knowledge, and subjective reactions, organized into the personal and collective unconscious.

What does the unconscious include according to Jung?

The unconscious includes fantasies, knowledge, learning, memories of experiences and relationships, and subjective reactions to events and people.

What was Jung's view of the unconscious?

Jung viewed the unconscious as a powerful part of the psyche containing repressed material, but also as a source of creativity, spirituality, and emotional growth.