Psychoanalysis Questions
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One avoids frustration by substituting a less desirable but available object for the unavailable one.
________ is when one avoids frustration by conjuring up in imagination what is unavailable in reality (a person fantasizes about a romance with a movie star).
_________ is when one avoids frustration or guilt by taking on the characteristics of another person, as in the case of a victim of abuse who takes on the abuser's view that the victim deserves the abuse or by taking on the abuser's behavior.
The symbols or what a person remembers from a dream is called ________ content.
_________ is shown when the client speaks of an emotionally charged topic such as a recent death in an emotionally flat, detached, or matter of fact tone.
The concept of ____________ has been used to explain responses to external threats as well as internal anxieties. In the phenomenon described as Stockholm syndrome, a hostage or kidnap victim 'falls in love' with the feared and hated person who has complete power over them. Or a performer with a desire for attention develops a performance phobia.
Related to development. When one avoids frustration or guilt of inadequacy by not progressing to the next developmental level of functioning. When a student feels unprepared to commence life after high school, so he fails a course so he can no longer graduate.
Most drives are moderated, but not frustrated, by __________ constraints
Motivation for all behavior is mostly _____________ to seek pleasure and avoid pain.
______ is the undoing of dream formation;the decoding of symbolic manifest content to reveal its hidden, original latent wish-fulfillment meaning.
What 2 parts of the psyche have all 3 topographical dimensions (un-, pre-, and conscious)?
What part of the psyche is socially oriented, irrational, self-punishment and self-rewarding, perfection principle?
What part of the psyche is totally unconscious?
Two drives that are strongly socially constrained cause the most internal psychological warfare: _____ and ___________.
Our most fundamental motives arise from the _____.
What part of the psyche is the foundation of personality/the source of all energy of personality?
The topographical model of the psyche is composed of 3 parts. What are they?
A ____________ is the ego's failure to produce an adequate fantasy
What was the first "psychological" approach to emotional and functional distress?
What part of the psyche is fully formed at birth and unchanging throughout life?