(Week 5) Freud and Psychoanalysis

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    • What does the psychodynamic approach focus on?
      Interaction of drives and forces within a person
    • What is the term used to describe Freud's theories?
      Psychoanalysis
    • How does psychoanalysis differ from psychodynamics?
      Psychoanalysis is Freud's specific therapeutic approach
    • Who was Johann Joseph Gassner?
      A priest who cured mental illness
    • What method did Gassner use to cure mental illness?
      Exorcism and ensuring belief in Christ
    • What did Philippe Pinel advocate for?
      Humane treatment of the mentally ill
    • What was Charcot known for documenting?
      Symptoms correlated with brain abnormalities
    • What significant changes did Pinel implement in asylums?
      Improved conditions and released patients from chains
    • Who was Jean-Martin Charcot?
      A neurologist interested in hysteria
    • What did Josef Breuer develop in the 1880s?
      The 'talking cure'
    • What was the case of Anna O. about?
      A woman with hysteria and memory loss
    • How did Breuer's method help Anna O.?
      By bringing repressed memories to consciousness
    • Where did Freud study medicine?
      University of Vienna
    • What was Freud's specialisation?
      Neuropathology
    • What did Freud study in Paris?
      Hypnosis and hysteria with Charcot
    • What is the affect-trauma model?
      Symptoms of hysteria have psychological meaning
    • What does repression involve according to Freud?
      Keeping painful memories out of consciousness
    • What can repression lead to?
      Panic, anxiety, or depression symptoms
    • What is the difference between repression and suppression?
      Repression is unconscious, suppression is conscious
    • What was Freud's seduction theory?
      Hysteria caused by premature sexual experience
    • What did Freud conclude about his patients' fantasies?
      They expressed sexual fantasies about parents
    • What is the Oedipus Complex?
      Being in love with the mother, jealous of the father
    • What emotional challenges do children face in the Oedipus Complex?
      Pressure into obedience and loss of omnipotence
    • What is the instinctual drives model?
      Focus on inborn drives like libido for motivation
    • What does libido operate on?
      The pleasure principle
    • What are the three structures of the mind according to Freud?
      Id, Ego, Superego
    • What does the Id represent?
      Basic needs and drives
    • What does the Ego do?
      Mediates between Id, Superego, and reality
    • What does the Superego represent?
      Ideal aspirations and moral commands
    • What happens when the Ego cannot cope with demands?
      Anxiety sets in
    • What are the three types of anxiety identified by Freud?
      Realistic, moral, and neurotic anxiety
    • What is the purpose of defense mechanisms?
      To limit psychic tension from conflicts
    • What can happen if immature defense mechanisms are used?
      Psychological disturbance can arise
    • What is projection as a defense mechanism?
      Attributing unacceptable feelings to others
    • What is regression as a defense mechanism?
      Returning to earlier psychological states when stressed
    • What is displacement as a defense mechanism?
      Satisfying a need with a substitute object
    • What is sublimation as a defense mechanism?
      Satisfying a need in a socially acceptable way
    • What is splitting as a defense mechanism?
      Inability to integrate contradictory qualities
    • What are the therapeutic aims in psychodynamic practice?
      Understanding and managing inner conflicts
    • What do boundaries in therapy help establish?
      Limitations of acceptability in the relationship
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