PS410 - psychoanalysis and continuing developments

Psychotherapy

Helping someone through talk therapy and new behaviour facilitation. Includes CBT and psychoanalysis.

Psychodynamics

Focus on getting insight to internal processes of thought and feeling to determine our reactions to life. “Figuring yourself out”

Depth psychology

Focus on unconcious thought, feeling and impulses and how they drive our lives.

Psychoanalysis

Freud, deep dynamic psychotherapeutic theories and practices.

neo Freudian

Built their ideas off Freud but were reshaped to fit new thinkers

Post Freudian

Impact of freuds work, work after Freud

Ego psychology

Neo Freudian, emphasized ego level dynamics rather than the ID operates on the reality principle. Created by Anna Freud

Anna Freud

His daughter, created ego psychology and worked on child psychology

Melanie Klein

Created object relations, used toys to help children, created paranoid schizoid state

Deindividuation

Realizing the mother is a seperate person plus you are a seperate person yourself

Carl Jung

Focus on mid life crisis, archetypes and the collective unconcious

Archetypes

Tendencies within unconcious mins that dispose a person to act like their ancestors

Personal unconcious

Reservoir of forgotten material that was once conscious but is not repressed

Collective unconcious

Deepest level of psyche, inherited experiences of human and pre human species

Individual psychology

Adler theory of personality, incorporates social and biological factors

Karen horney

We become neurotic because of basic anxiety from our insecurities.

Social interest

Adler,innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and society’s goals

Basic anxiety

Horney, conception of pervasive loneliness and helplessness that lead to neuroticism

Idealized self image

Horney, false pic of the self that is imperfect misleading mask that prevents neurotics from accepting their true selves

Abraham Maslow

Focus on self actualization (development of one’s abilities and realization of their potential)

Positive regard

Maslow, mother has love for her baby

Flow state

Mihaly czikzentmihayi, being in the zone, you are fully immersed in the activity