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5010 Mid Cont P
5010 Midterm - Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory
Question | Answer |
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Ego psychology | developed by Erikson; Anna Freud was a central figure |
Ego psychology | stresses psychosocial development through the lifespan |
Object-relations theory | form of analytic treatment that involves exploration of internal unconscious identifications and internalization of external objects (aspects of significant other people) |
Object relations | interpersonal relationships as they are represented intrapsychically |
Self-psychology | emphasizes how we use interpersonal relationships (self objects) to develop our sense of self |
Margaret Mahler | believed that the resolution of the Oedipus complex is less critical |
Margaret Mahler | emphasized child’s progression from a symbiotic relationship with a maternal figure towards separation and individuation |
Mahler's Normal Infantile autism | phase in first 3 or 4 weeks of life where infant is unable to differentiate itself from its mother |
Mahler's Symbiosis | 3rd to 8th month, infant has a pronounce dependency on mother |
Mahler's Separation-individuation process | begins in 4th or 5th month where child experiences separation but still turns to mother for confirmation and comfort and around 36th month, move towards constancy of self and object |
Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT) | applies principles of psychodynamic theory within a preestablished time limit of usually 10-25 session |
Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) | aim of therapy is not simply symptom reduction but changing a client’s ingrained, repetitive patterns of interpersonal relatedness |