Pre-Freud
The "talking cure" treatment that Breuer claimed helped cure Anna O. Hint: hypnosis is invovled.
The cathartic method.
A motivated unconscious process whereby unacceptable and disturbing thoughts and feelings are kept out of awareness.
Repression
The three layers of the mind according to the topographic model.
Conscious, subconscious, and unconscious.
1923
The clinical phenomenon whereby a patient transfers emotional experience from that of an earlier figure to the therapist.
Transference
One of Breuer's most famous patients, she suffered from paralysis and abnormalities in her vision and speech, confusion, paresthesias, and a split personality characterized by a "normal" self and a "naughty" self.
Anna O.
Traditional understanding of catharsis.
We are trying to expel something that is repressed and causing us hysteria.
This book first introduces the topographic model.
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
The structural model lead to what type of psychology?
Ego Psychology (id, superego, ego)
Wishes, needs, hopes, and fears that influence all aspects of mental life.
Dynamic unconscious
A common illness in the U.S. and Europe in the 19th century that describes a variety of sensory, motor, and emotional disorders without any recognized neurological origin. Symptoms of this can be a result of repression.
Hysteria
Modern understanding of catharsis.
We are trying to discover what is repressed in order to bring it to conscious awareness, not to expel it.
This comes first in the mind's development, but it persists throughout life and is not restricted to early life.
Primary process
Wishes, thoughts, and feelings create unpleasure. This leads to defense and compromise formation.
Being unaware of something but easily brought into awareness if attention is applied.
Descriptive unconscious
When patients are instructed to let their thoughts flow freely, without conscious control.
Free association
The psychodynamic model of the mind attempts to organize the data of the clinical situation by paying attention to what three things?
1. The patient's history and life story
2. Their inner world/experience
3. How the patient relates to you (transference)
Obeys the reality principle and characterizes the preconscious and conscious parts of the mind.
Secondary process
Parts of the structural model that are unconscious.
Superego and Id
Maximize pleasure and minimize unpleasure
The pleasure principle
What was the main "problem" with free association?
Patients wanted to keep certain internal experiences out of awareness in order to protect themselves from shame and self-criticism.
Why do we need a model of the mind?
Our ideas about our own mind are often wrong.
It has clinical utility.
Mirror neurons show us we are hardwired to relate to others.
Any inflexible, maladaptive behavior that represents a solution to an unconscious conflict.
Neurosis
Parts of the structural model that are in the preconscious.
Ego
Discontinuity in the flow of free association.
Resistance