Adlerian and Jungian Theories of Personality and Object Relations

Flashcards based on Adlerian and Jungian Theories of Personality and Object Relations.

Second Born

Shaped by their perception of the older child's attitude, competitive, driven to catch up, often in contrast to the first.

Youngest

Often the most pampered, high risk of being problem children, likely to have strong feelings of inferiority and lack of independence, often highly motivated to exceed older siblings.

Only Child

Competes with parents, often develops an exaggerated sense of superiority and an inflated self-concept, may lack well-developed feelings of cooperation and social interest.

Early Recollections

Memories of events or experiences recalled from early childhood (typically before age 7).

Dreams

Can provide clues for solving future problems.

Psychotherapy

To enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority, and encourage social interest.

Oldest Child (Positive Traits)

Nurturing and protective of others, highly anxious, good organizer, exaggerated feelings of power, unconscious hostility.

Oldest Child (Positive Traits)

Highly motivated, cooperative, moderately competitive.

Oldest Child (Negative Traits)

Fights for acceptance, must always be 'right,' highly critical of others, uncooperative.

Second Child

Highly competitive, easily discouraged.

Youngest Child (Positive Traits)

Realistically ambitious, socially mature.

Youngest Child (Negative Traits)

Pampered style of life, dependent on others, wants to excel in everything.

Only Child (Negative Traits)

Unrealistically ambitious, exaggerated feelings of superiority, low feelings of cooperation, inflated sense of self, pampered style of life.

Old Age (Jung)

The warmth of the sun diminishes at dusk, if people fear life during early years, then they will almost certainly fear death during later years.

Self-Realization/Individuation

Psychological rebirth or the process of becoming an individual or a whole person.

Word Association Test

Person responds to each stimulus word with the first word that comes to mind.

Dream Analysis (Jung)

To uncover elements from the personal and collective unconscious and to integrate them into consciousness in order to facilitate self-realization.

Active Imagination

Requires a person to begin with an impression (dream image, vision, etc.) and concentrate until it begins to 'move'.

Psychotherapy - First Stage (Jung)

Confessing a pathogenic secret.

Psychotherapy - Second Stage (Jung)

Interpretation, explanation, and elucidation; gives patients insight into the causes of their neuroses.

Psychotherapy - Third Stage (Jung)

Includes the education of patients as social beings.

Psychotherapy - Fourth Stage (Jung)

Therapist must first be transformed into a healthy human being.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Adds judging and perceiving functions to Jung's typology, creating 16 personality types.

Terror (Object Relations)

Refers to the infant's overwhelming anxiety about being annihilated, abandoned, or attacked.

Normal Symbiosis (Object Relations)

Infants gradually realize they cannot satisfy their own needs and seek a symbiotic relationship with caregiver, building emotional security and trust.

Basic hostility

Results from childhood feelings of rejection or neglect by parents or from a defense against basic anxiety.

Normal defenses - Toward people

Friendly, loving personality.

Normal defenses - Against people

A survivor in a competitive society.

Normal defenses - Away from people

Autonomous, serene personality.

Basic anxiety

Results from parental threats or from a defense against hostility.

Neurotic defenses - Toward people

Compliant personality.

Neurotic defenses - Against people

Aggressive personality.

Neurotic defenses - Away from people

Detached personality.

Toward People - Basic conflict

Feelings of helplessness.

Toward People

The Compliant Personality

Against People - Basic conflict

Protection against hostility of others.

Against People

Ability to survive in a competitive society.

Away from People - Basic conflict

Feelings of isolation.

Away from People

Autonomous and serene Personality

MOVING TOWARD PEOPLE

Need to protect oneself through safety.

COMPLIANT PERSONALITY

Adopts a compliant stance, characterized by submission, self-sacrifice, and a need to be liked or accepted.

MORBID DEPENDENCY

Becomes excessively dependent on others for emotional support, decision-making, and self-worth.

CODEPENDENCY

A dysfunctional reliance on relationships for identity and emotional survival.

MOVING AGAINST PEOPLE

Protecting oneself from basic anxiety by controlling, dominating, or exploiting others.

MOVING AWAY FROM PEOPLE

Emotionally detaching themselves from others.

Self-Sufficiency and Independence

A strong need to move away from people; proving they can get along without others.

Fourth Stage

The therapist must first be transformed into a healthy human being

MOVING AWAY FROM PEOPLE

By emotionallhy detaching themselves from others

POWER

Usually combined with the needs for prestige and possession, and manifests itself as the need to control others and to avoid feelings of weakness or stupidity.

EXPLOIT OTHERS

Evaluate others based on how they can be used or exploited, but fear being exploited by others.

SOCIAL RECOGNITION / PRESTIGE

By trying to be first, to be important, or to attract attention to themselves.

AMBITION AND PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT

They must defeat other people in order to confirm their superiority.

PERFECTION AND UNASSAILABILITY

Dread making mistakes and desperately attempt to hide their weaknesses from others.

Personal Admiration

Seeking Validation & Approval

Second Born

What Adlerian concept describes how individuals are shaped by their perception of an older child's attitude toward them?

Youngest Child

Which birth order is often considered the most pampered in Adlerian theory?

Only Child

In Adlerian theory, which birth order often competes with parents?

Early Recollections

What are the memories of events or experiences recalled from early childhood called in Adlerian theory?

Dreams

According to Adler, what can provide clues for solving future problems?

To enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority, and encourage social interest

What is the purpose of psychotherapy in Adlerian theory?

Nurturing, protective, a good organizer

What are some positive traits of the oldest child in Adlerian theory?

Unconscious Hostility

What is one major negative characteristic of the traditional oldest child?

Highly competitive and easily discouraged

According to Adler, what are two typical traits of a second child?

Exaggerated Feelings of Superiority and Inflated sense of self

What are some unrealistic qualities of an only child?

Diminishes at Dust

What happens to the warmth of the sun in Jungian theory?

Self-Realization and Individuation

What is another name for physchological rebirth?

Respond to stimulus word with the first word that comes to mind

What should a person in the Association word test do?

Uncover elements for the conscious an unconscious

What is it to facilitate self realization

An impression

What should a person begin with in active imagination?

Confessing

Whta is a pathogenic secret?

Insight into causes

What does Interpretation Explanation and Elucidation cause?

The Third

What stage includes education?

Fourth Stage

thearpiost tranform into human

Myers Briggs

Judgin and preceiving

Overwhelmimg anxiety

How does the infant feel in Terror?

Destoyed by hostile caregiver

What can the infant fear?

seeks symbiotic relationship with caregiver

how can emotional security be built?

childhood rejection

What does hostility resuly from?

Friendly

Normal defenses towars people

Against People

What can be a normal defense

Parental Threat

Whar defnes anxiety

Toward People

What is the compliant persoanilty a neurotoc defense

Against

What is aggressive in nerurotic defences

Yes, the complaint personality is helplessness

Is helplesseness a basic conflict

People

Protecton againes hostlility

Survive

can you survive in a competetive enviroment

yes it is important with people

is isation important

move towards people

need of safety

accepts

What does the conpliant do

self-worth

What does the mobrbid do

Codependency

is there emotional survival?

Against people

Where does controlling, domiating exploiting come from

Away

Where detaching yourself from?

Self sufficency

Need to move away

Personal Adirmiarion

is there being first here?

YES

Are perfectionists importnat here?

Explot

How they feel

NO

Should people be first and attract attention

personal achievement

defeat people importnat

is imporant

the Fourth what