Freud's Psychodynamic

• Psychoanalysis Theory


  Emphasized unconscious forces, biologically based drives of sex and aggression, and unavoidable conflicts in early childhood as the rulers and shapers of our personality
• Levels of Mental Life


  • Unconscious
  • Preconscious
  • Conscious
• Unconscious


  Contains all those drives, urges, or instincts that are beyond our awareness and the major driving power behind all behavior.
• Preconscious


  Contains all those elements that are not conscious but can become conscious either quite readily or with some difficulty
• Conscious


  Mental awareness at any given point in time
• Provinces of the Mind

  • Id
  • Ego
  • Superego
• Id


  Reservoir of instincts, operates on the pleasure principle and primary process to satisfy needs
• Ego


  Rational master of personality, operates on the reality principle and secondary process to satisfy needs in a practical and realistic manner
• Superego


  Conscience, operates on the moralistic and idealistic principle
• Dynamics of Personality


  • Drives
  • Sex
  • Aggression
• Drives


  Constant motivational force
• Sex


  • Life Instinct (purpose of survival)
• Aggression


  The wish to die turned against objects other than the self
• Anxiety


  • Realistic Anxiety
  • Neurotic Anxiety
  • Moral Anxiety
• Realistic Anxiety


  Unpleasant, nonspecific feeling involving a danger, fear of tangible dangers in the real world
• Neurotic Anxiety


  Unconscious fear of being punished for impulsively displaying ID-DOMINATED behavior
• Moral Anxiety


  Fear of one's conscience
• Defense Mechanisms


  • Repression
  • Denial
  • Reaction Formation
  • Projection
  • Regression
  • Rationalization
  • Displacement
  • Sublimation
  • Introjection
• Repression


  Denial of existence of something that causes anxiety
• Denial


  Denying the existence of an external threat or traumatic event, inability to accept reality
• Reaction Formation


  Expressing an opposite of the one truly driving the person
• Projection


  Attributing a disturbing impulse to someone else
• Regression


  Retreating to an earlier, less frustrating period of life (most common)
• Rationalization


  Reinterpreting to make it acceptable or logical
• Displacement


  Shifting the impulse to an object that is available
• Sublimation


  Diverting into socially acceptable behaviors
• Introjection


  Adoption of the ideas or attitudes of others
• Psychosexual Stages


  • Oral Stage (Birth to 1)
  • Anal Stage (1 to 3)
  • Phallic Stage (3 to 6)
  • Latency Stage (6 to Puberty)
  • Genital Stage (12 onwards)
• Oral Stage


  Formation of ID, E-Zone: Mouth, Oral Incorporative - dependent, Oral Sadistic - aggressive, Oral behavior such as smoking and eating; passivity and gullibility (and the opposites)
• Phallic Stage


  Formation of EGO, E-Zone: Genitals, Oedipus Complex
• Latency Stage


  Sex instinct is dormant
• Genital Stage


  Adult relationships
• Techniques


  • Free Association
  • Dream Analysis
• Free Association


  Patient says whatever comes to mind, "Daydreaming out loud"
• Dream Analysis


  Interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts , Latent Content - symbolic meaning
• Libido


  Refers to sex drive
• Instinct/Libido


  Motivating force of behavior
• Anxiety


  Unpleasant state accompanied by a physical sensation; ego preserving mechanism
• Neurotic Anxiety


  Apprehension about an unknown danger; exists in the ego, but originates from id impulses
• Moral Anxiety


  Conflict between the ego and superego