Psych 320 Personality psych ilardi final

Who developed the psychoanalytic model?

Sigmund Freud

Libido

sexual desire

Major ego defense mechanisms

denial
suppression
repression
rationalization
intellectualization
reaction formation
projection
displacement
dissociation
sublimation
humor

Suppression

pushed back down
procrastination

repression

unconscious
can't handle stuff

intellectualization

live in your head
turn an emotion into a thought
spiritual and philosophical
"something really fucked happened but it's part of god's plan"

Stages of psychosexual development

oral
anal
phallic
latent
genital

Oral stage (0-12 months)

Focus of pleasure: mouth/sucking
Metaphor: dependency on mother

To avoid oral fixation:

balance:
too much= hovering mother
not enough= neglectful mother

fixated oral personality:

clingy and dependant
or
irrationally independent (also narcissistic)
nail biters, pencil chewers

Anal stage (1-3 years)

Focus of pleasure: anus/defecation
Metaphor: control and orderliness

To avoid anal fixation:

potty training
setting logical boundaries

fixated anal personality:

anal retentive (excessively orderly, OCD, OCPD)
anal expulsive (disorganized)
>testing limits

Phallic Stage (3-6 years)

Focus of pleasure: opposite sex parent
Metaphor: prestages adult sexuality
Key terms: Oedipus/ Electra, castration anxiety, penis envy

To avoid phallic fixation:

identification with same-sex parent
"I'm going to become like dad so I can marry someone like mom"

Fixated phallic personality

confused sexuality

Latent stage (6-12 years)

Focus of libido: none, sublimated into work
Fixation: trauma

fixated latent personality

workaholic/ conflicted work

Genital Stage (13+ years)

mature psychological function
"love + work"
generative/ creative

Psychoanalysis

technical name of freudian psychotherapy

catharsis

emotional release

two basic curative mechanisms to psychoanalysis

catharsis and insight

transference

patient puts feelings of parents on to therapist

contributions of freudian theory

most ambitious theoretical model of personality
popularized "talking cure"
importance of early childhood experience for adult personality
influence of trauma in causing mental illness
art and literature

critiques of freudian therapy

unscientific
over-emphasis on sexuality
lack of parsimony
sexist (Karen Horney- womb envy)
sometimes plain wrong

Modern reactions to freudian psychoanalysis

Orthodox Freudians (vanishing)
Neo-freudians
post freudians

Neo-freudians

psychodynamic
hold onto the parts of psychoanalysis that work

Post-freudians

Freud is dead, he was wrong, let's move on

Carl Jung

Freuds protege
importance of spirituality
collective unconscious
synchronicity

synchronicity

meaningful coincidences

panpsychism

our material brain can make sense of non-material things

consciousness

fundamental property of matter

Male (animus)

bold
aggressive

female (anima)

nurturing
caring
self-sacrificing

Personality Dimensions (Myers-Briggs)

1. Intraversion/Extraversion
2. Sensing vs Intuition (openness)
3. thinking vs. feeling (agreeableness)
4. perceiving vs. judging (conscientiousness)

Intraversion/Extraversion

where you put your mental energy

Sensing vs intuition

fact vs impression
how you take in information

Perceiving vs judging

how much closure you need in any situation

Snakes, black birds

death

house

self
rooms= parts of self

water

unconscious self

fire

dramatic change

travel

your path through life
(vehicle=self, bridge= new opportunity)

hero

the potential of your completed self

shadow

unassimilated parts of self

psychodynamic theory of attachment theory

first formulated by John Bowlby
Harlow's terry
secure attachment -> explore environment
"internal working model"

Strange Situation Test

Developed by Mary Ainsworth
12-24 months
4 primary attachment styles

4 primary attachment styles

1. Secure
2. Anxious preoccupied
3. Fearful- avoidant
4. Avoidant- dismissive