Avoiding awareness of aspects of external reality that are difficult to face
What is denial
100
The primitive source of instinctual drives, especially sexual/sensual and aggressive drives
What is the id
100
When a client says everything that comes to mind without editing or censorship.
What is free association
100
Mistakes in speaking, writing (ex: Freudian slips), accidents, memory losses, and humor as seen as good sources of information to better understand this part of the client
What is unconscious material
100
Intervention when therapists seek to help clients with coping, stress reduction, and day- to- day functioning
What is supportive intervention
200
Shifting feelings associated with one idea, object, or person to another.
What is displacement
200
The mental agency that incorporates norms from one’s parents, family, and culture and is often in conflict with the id
What is the superego
200
Occurs when therapists’ reactions toward clients are based on the therapist’s personal history and conflicts.
What is countertransference
200
The unconscious ideas and impulses that appear in disguised forms throughout the client’s dreams, and is considered the most interesting aspect of the dreams to psychoanalysts
What is latent content
200
Hartmann, Rapaport, and Anna Freud used this type of approach to focus on the patients’ adaptive ego functions
What is ego psychology
300
Returning to an earlier phase of development or functioning
What is regression
300
The part of the personality that tries to mediate between he demands of the id and superego while simultaneously recognizing and responding to external realities
What is the ego
300
Transforming an unacceptable impulse into its opposite.
What is reaction formation
300
A client’s description of a dream which often contains features associated with the dreamer’s recent activities
What is manifest content
300
When therapists focus on helping clients cope with a current crisis or problem rather than on helping them work through early relationships or to reconstruct the personality
What is short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
400
Compartmentalizing experiences of the self and others so that contractions in behavior, thought or affect are not recognized
What is splitting
400
Unconscious mental strategies or routines that the ego employs to ward off the anxiety produced by intrapsychic conflict
What is defense mechanisms
400
The standard role of a psychodynamic theorist of revealing little about themselves during the course of psychotherapy
What is “analytic incognito” or blank screen
400
Transforming unacceptable dream material into acceptable manifest content.
What is dream work
400
Alfred Adler’s approach focused on overcoming feelings of inferiority and the importance of social motives and behavior
What is individual psychology
500
Using excessive and abstract ideation to avoid difficult feelings
What is intellectualization
500
Suggests the mind exists on a continuum from unconscious, to preconscious, to conscious thought and is fundamental to understanding Freud’s views of personality.
What is the Topographical Model
500
The idea that memories, impressions, or experiences that occur together in a client’s mind are necessarily related and not random
What is psychic determinism
500
When the patient-therapist relationship creates a miniature versions or microcosm of the causes of the clients problems which becomes the central focus of analysis.
What is transference neurosis
500
Expands the role of relationships, especially early ones and focuses on modifying the mental representation of interpersonal relationships