PSYCHOANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

FREUD

• Freud began his medical career at the Vienna General Hospital
• He did research on the effects of cocaine
• He later worked in a psychiatric clinic and in a local asylum
• He resigned from the hospital so he could study nervous disorders.

Freud's Odd Suggestion: He had a horrible smoking habit, and wouldn't give it up after plenty of medical warnings and advice from friends. His excuse was that he believed such habits were substitutes for masturbation.

According to a medical dictionary: Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy used by qualified psychotherapists to treat patients who have a range of mild to moderate chronic life problems. It is related to a specific body of theories about the relationships between conscious and unconscious mental processes, and should not be used as a synonym for psychotherapy in general. Psychoanalysis is done one-on-one with the patient and the analyst; it is not appropriate for group work.

FIELDS

• Individual therapy
• Individual counseling
• Not appropriate for groups

BASIC INFORMATION

• There are three components of the mind
• There are five stages of personal development

COMPONENTS OF THE MIND

• The ID
• The Ego
• The Superego

THE ID

• Operates largely according to the pleasure principle
• Very primative
• No perception of reality
• Eros: the life instinct that motivates people to focus on pleasure-seeking
• Thanatos: the death instinct the motivates people to destroy with aggression

THE EGO

• Aware of reality
• Recognizes what is real and understands that behaviors have consequences
• Used for reasoning & problem solving
• Dilemma: too real.

THE SUPEREGO

• Contains our values and social morals
• From childhood with our parents
• Contained in the conscience
• Seeks to inhibit the ID's pleasure-seeking demands
• Specifically for sex and aggression

FIVE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

• Oral (Birth - 1.5 years old)
• Anal (1.5 - 3 years old)
• Phallic (3 - 5 years old)
• Latency (5 - 12 years old)
• Genital (12 - Adulthood)

ORAL DEVELOPMENT

• Develops through proper amount of sucking, eating, biting, and talking
• Drinking
• Smoking
• Nail-biting

ANAL DEVELOPMENT

• Usually developed through toilet training
• OCD - over punsihed
• Extremely messy - not trained

PHALLIC DEVELOPMENT

• First sexual desires develop for the opposite sex parent
• Oedipal complex
• Elektra complex
• Must learn how to deal with internal struggles/proper sexual desires
• Problems with parents

LATENCY DEVELOPMENT

• Mature before puberty and finds pleasure in friends and school.
• Neurosis
• Unacceptable social behaviors/activities

GENITAL DEVELOPMENT

• Adolescence
• Must establish successful relationships with peers
• Deep fixations on sex
• Unsuccessful relationships

USES

• Uses the past to explain the present
• Examples on the next slides

Every time the vehicle she is riding in stops suddenly, Mrs. Smith panics. She thinks this is because she was in a car accident when she was a child, and in each new situation the fear of another accident crashes over her like a wave. (Traumatic childhood incident)

Jack’s mother left his family when he was a child. Ever since then, he has had a very difficult time trusting people because he is afraid they will abandon him. (Phallic development failure)

Tom and Ashley were participating in pre-marital counseling. It came up during one session that Ashley may have difficulty really believing that Tom loves her because she never felt that her parents loved her. (Phallic development failure)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-psychoanalytic-theory.html
• https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textboo...
• http://simplepsychology.org/
• http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Psychoanalytic+perspective
• http://changingminds.org/explanations/personality/freud_personality.htm