What are the basic principles of Psychoanalytic theory?
The unconscious Driven by drives Intrapsychic conflicts Psychosexual stages Exploring the past Defense mechanisms Dreams Catharsis Corrective emotional experience
What are the three aspects of the psyche
Conscious
Preconscious
Unconscious
What are the two main drives identified by Freud?
Libido
Death drive
What is the repetition compulsion?
Doing one thing over and over again until mastered it or overcome it. It is to keep their drives in an optimal state of balance
How is the psyche divided according to Freud?
Id
Ego
Superego
What are the two principles that govern the parts of the psyche?
Pleasure principle
Reality principle
What are Freud’s stages of psychosexual development?
0-1: oral 2-3: anal 4-5: phallic 6-12: latency 12-adult: genital
What the identified defense mechanisms?
Rationalization Repression Projection Reaction formation Denial Sublimation Regression
What is an evenly hovering attention?
The counselor provides neutral objectivity to allow the client to project fantasies about the counselor. The counselor practices empathy and warmth in a hovering manner
How can you word through transference with the client?
- Observe how unconscious and unfulfilled needs are played out in sessions
- Notice how the client idealizes you as a need for more constructive “parenting”
- Use positive transference as leverage without bringing the client’s attention to it
- After a solid relationship is built, you can bring the client’s attention to transference and its meaning
What are the signs that countertransference may be happening?
- Impaired empathy
- Inaccurate interpretation of client’s feeling
- Feeling of being blocked and frustrated for a particular client
- Evidence of boredom or impatience.
- Unusual memory lapse regarding a client
- Mutual acting out of client’s pathology and counselor attributes
- Tendency to speak about the client in derogatory terms
- An awareness that you are working harder than the client
What questions can help increase our self-awareness?
- What am I doing to create or exacerbate the problem?
- What personal issues of mine are being triggered?
- Who does the patient remind me of?
- How am I acting out my impatience?
- What expectations am I demanding from the client that they are unable to meet?
- What needs of mine are not being met?
What are the coping strategies identified by Horney?
Moving with
Moving toward
Moving against
Moving away
What do relational psychoanalysts posit?
Humans’ primary drive is intimacy. Urges and drives are shaped by and understood in the context of relationships
What is the concept of enactment?
The client repeats historical patterns established historically in the family of origin
What is at the base of attachment-based therapy?
John Bolwby’s ideas about early infants experiences with caregivers created a system of helping children create a solid base of trust and support
