Chapter 12 of Clinical Psychology

Free Association

A therapy technique in which psychodynamic psychotherapists simply ask clients to say whatever comes to mind without censoring themselves at all

Psychodynamic psychotherapy refers broadly to the approach authored by _____ and all subsequent adaptations or expansions of it

Sigmund Freud

Displacement

When the id has an impulse and the superego rejects it, the ego can displace the id impulse toward a safer target - rather than aiming the id's desired action at whom or what it wants, we redirect the impulse toward another person or object to minimize the repercussions

Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy

form of psychodynamic psychotherapy in which the therapist makes efforts to form a "corrective" relationship with the client that does not follow the same unconscious "script" as the client's previous problematic relationships

The term _____ succinctly captures the primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy

insight

Ego

is a mediator, a compromise maker between the id and the superego

Superego

is the part of the mind that establishes rules, restrictions, and prohibitions

Id

is the part of the mind that generates all the pleasure-seeking, selfish, indulgent, animalistic impulses

Anal Stage

occurring when the child is about 1/5 to 3 years old

Interpersonal Therapy

originally created to treat depression, but it has since been used to treat numerous other disorders - improving the client's relationships with others will facilitate improvement in the client's depressive symptoms

Allegiance Effects

refer to the influence of researchers' own biases and preferences on the outcome of their empirical studies

Transference

refers to clients' tendency to form relationships with therapists in which they unconsciously and unrealistically expect the therapist to behave like important people from the clients' past

Fixation

refers to the idea that as children move through the developmental stages, they may become emotionally "stuck" at any one of them to some extent and may continue to struggle with issues related to that stage of many years, often well into adulthood

Oral Stage

takes place during roughly the first year and a half of a child's life

Phallic Stage

taking place from about age 3 to 6

manifest content

the actual plot of the dream as we remember it

Repression

the ego can take the impulse and the internal conflict it creates and "sweep them under the rug" - denial

latent content

the raw thoughts and feelings of the unconscious

The primary goal of psychodynamic psychotherapy is

to make the unconscious conscious

dream work

uses symbols to express wishes

a Freudian slip

verbal or behavioral mistakes determined, according to psychodynamic psychotherapists, by unconscious motivations

Resistance

when certain issues come up during therapy, clients make it clear that they "don't want to go there"

reaction formation

when the id has an impulse and the superego rejects it, the ego can form a reaction against the id impulse - essentially, do the exact opposite

Projection

when the id has an impulse and the superego rejects it, the ego can project the id impulse onto other people around us

Sublimation

when the id has an impulse and the superego rejects it, the ego can redirect the impulse in such a way that the resulting behavior actually benefits others