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Freud
everything you need to know about Freud and his theories
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
05/21/2009

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Where did Freud study medicine?
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Vienna
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How many children did Freud have?
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6
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Which of Frued's children became a famous psychologist?
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youngest daughter Anna
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What did Freud study before his interest shifted to Psychology?
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organic diseases of the nervous system
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What were Freud's influences?
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-Victorian Era
-The World Wars and Anti-semitism
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Anti-Semitism
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the unfounded hostility or predjudice towards Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group
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Determinism
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-behavior is caused
-there are no accidental thoughts, feelings, or actions
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3 parts of conciousness
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1. Conciousness
2. Preconcious
3. Unconcious
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Concious
Definition
aware of at any given moment
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Preconcious
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could be aware of if we were paying attention
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Unconcious
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can never be aware of except under very limited circumstances (parapraxes, dreams, hypnosis)
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Id
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~Totally unconcious; biological (you are born with is); instincts
~"pleasure principle" (seeks complete, total, and immeadiate release of energy)
~Constantly sends out instinctual orders
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Ego
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~partly concious, partly unconcious
~"reality principle" (delay gratification of id until appropriate time so you can recieve maximum pleasure for minimum pain)
~engages the world; interacts with other people
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Superego
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~partly concious, partly unconcious
~seeks perfection and punishes when you deviate perfection
~moral/ethical
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Energy system
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all behavior can be reduced to the transfer or release of energy
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sublimation
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taking energy and channeling it into another activity resulting in socially desirable behavior
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Release of energy
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acting on the instinct urge "pleasure"
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Cathexes
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gratification
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Anticathexes
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inhibition
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The two instincts: two primary themes in people's lives
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Eros (sexual, or life instinct)
Thanatos (aggression, or death instinct)
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What paper did Freud write on cocaine?
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On Coca
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positive happiness
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seeking pleasure
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negative happiness
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avoiding pain
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Civilization
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the compromise made in giving up active pleasure-seeking and recieving negative happiness
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guilt
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internal authority
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systems to control aggressive instincts
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~Id sends aggressive impulse that is blocked by superego, who converts it into guilt and sends it to the ego, where it causes pain
~Id is satified because it has caused pain, and civilization is maintained because aggression was not enacted toward another person
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primary process
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the response that the id makes to the realities of life
~ex: we can not eat everytime we are hungry
-drive reduction
-images of food in the mind can substitute until a person can eat
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erogenous zone
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source of erotic pleasure
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If too much or too little gratification is recieved what can result
Definition
regression and fixation
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psychosexual stages
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~oral (birth to 2 years)
~anal (2-4 years)
~Phallic (4-6 years; Oedipus complex)
~Latency (6-12 years)
~Genital (12 years and up)
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Oedipus complex
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~castration anxiety or penis envy
~identification
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Types of anxiety
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~Realistic
~Neurotic
~Moral
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Realistic anxiety
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actual threats
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Neurotic anxiety
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threat that unacceptable Id impulses will become concious
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Moral anxiety
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ego is threatened by punishment from superego
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Defense Mechanisms
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~Repression
~Reaction Formation
~Undoing
~Projection
~Rationalization
~Denial
~Displacement
~Sublimation
~Fixation
~Regression
~Suppression
~Isolation of affect
~Intellectualization
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Psychoanalysis
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~Free association
~Dream interpretation
~Resistance
~Transference and countertranference
~Interpretation
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problems with hypnosis
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~some are hard to hypnotize
~some are hard to get into a deep hypnotic state
~it is not a cure
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Fundamental rule of free association
Definition
give up efforts to maintain concious and rational thought processes and say whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial, disconnected, or embarrassing
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the couch
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~more comfortable
~reduce interference
~can't stare
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manifest content
Definition
concious aspect; what patient says
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latent content
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hidden, unconcious meaning
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dream work
Definition
transforms latent content into manifest content
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condensation
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a number of latent elements are expressed as a single manifest element
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displacement
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a trivial aspect of latent dream expressed as something very important in manifest dream; or vice versa
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Dramatization
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unconcious elements are transformed into visual images or pictures of situations portryed in dreams
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Secondary revision
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tendency to fill in gaps and make connections so manifest dream seems to have continuity
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nightmares
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anxiety dreams; ego fails to censor dreams
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Resistance
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~fear of revealing unconcious
*mental blocks
*change subject
*sidetrack discussion
*try to postpone futher sessions
*frustrations b/c therapist isn't meeting expectations
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role of psychoanalyst
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~understanding and neutral listener ~remove resistances( through interpretation-explaining to patients the irrational qualities of their resistances) ~work through transferences ~guard against countertransference
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Some of Freud's most important published works
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The Interpretation of Dreams, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id, and Civilization and It's Discontents
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conversion disorder
Definition
a person converts a psychological problem into a physical one (Charcot)
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catharthic method
Definition
having a hypnotized patient recall forgotten traumatic experiences while giving free expression to the accompanying emotion (Breuer)
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Freud and Breuer's book
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Studies on Hysteria
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libido
Definition
the energy of the life instincts (Eros)
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the two most important drives with which humans have to cope
Definition
sexual drive and aggressive drive
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Repression
Definition
The most basic fundamental defense mechanism. The ego excludes from conciousness that which it cannot accept.
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Reaction Formation
Definition
an anxiety-producing impulse, thought, or feeling is replaced in consciousness by its opposite.
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Undoing
Definition
the ego attempts to reconstruct previous actions
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Projecting
Definition
assigning your undesirable feelings to someone else
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Rationalization
Definition
offering reasonable-sounding explanations to unreasonable, unacceptable behaviors
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Denial
Definition
the ego does not accept the reality of something threatening
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Identification
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involves the introjection or incorporation of the qualities of another person
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transference
Definition
when a patient attaches childhood emotions to the analyst
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countertransference
Definition
an analyst's emotional reaction to transference of a patient
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countertransference
Definition
an analyst's emotional reaction to transference of a patient
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