Psychoanalysis Questions

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?