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Where are the two basic childhood needs? Examples?
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Satisfaction: Biological Need
Safety: Need for security to be free from fear |
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What are basic evil, basic hostility, and basic anxiety?
What are some examples of parental mistreatment (basic evil) described in class and in the text? |
Basic evil: Parental mistreatment that undermines child security (EXAMPLE: Indifference toward a child, rejection of the child)
Basic hostility: Unmet needs
Basic Anxiety: Feeling lonely, helpless in a hostile world
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What are the 10 strategies for coping with basic anxiety? (Neurotic trends)
Explain each trend
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Need For/To.. 1. Affection and approval: Love in wrong places 2. Partner who will run one's life: Security 3. Live ones life within narrow limits: do what you want 4. Power: Weakness undesireable 5. Exploit others 6. Social recognition and prestige: Let people follow me 7. Personal admiration: Compliments, flattered 8. Ambition and personal achievement: best of all time 9. Self-sufficiency and independence: I can do it 10. Perfection and unassailability: Flawless
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How do neurotics and healthy people experience these trends? |
Do not pass easily from one need to the other |
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Explain real and idealized self
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Real self: To move toward self-realization (Who we really are)
Ideal self: Neurotic abandones real self for the sake of a illusionary (Who we want to be)
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Living in accordance with the real-self leads to what? |
Self-Realization |
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Basic evil often leads to the creation of what?
What is the "tyranny of the should"? |
Basic Hostility toward parents
Tyranny of the should: A set of demands on self that are altogether too difficult and to rigid |
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What are the attempts at coping (neurotic solutions to interpersonal conflicts)? (Needs?, Types?)
How do neurotics and healthy people experience these attempts? |
Moving Toward People: Need for affection (Compliant)
Moving Against People: Need for Power (Hostile)
Moving Away from People: Need for Independence (Detached)
The Neurotic Emphasizes 1 of the 3, instead of all 3. |
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What is Externalization?
Externalization is related to which one of Freud's ego defense mechanisms?
How is externalization different from that particular ego defense mechanism? |
1) The tendency to view everything of importance occurring outside of oneself
2) Projection
3) More Comprehensive
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What are the characteristics of self-analysis? (helping yourself) |
Free Association: Break yourself
Overcome Resistances: Overcome
Courage to Change: Change Behavior
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What are the goal of therapy? |
Therapy isn't to eliminate but to help individuals solve their problems.
Return the client toward self-realization |
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What are the foundations of feminine psychology? |
Cultural factors are more important in explaining personality characteristics of both men and women than biological |
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What are criticisms and contributions of Horney's theory? |
Criticisms: Unoriginal, Little empirical support, Disregard of healthy persons
Contributions: Original ideas, self-analysis, feminine psychology |
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Auxiliary approaches to artificial harmony?
1. Ignoring factors not in accordance
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Blind Spots |
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2. Situational rules and ethics |
Compartmentalization |
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3. Logical, plausible justifications, and excuses |
Rationalization |
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4. Controlling expressions of emotions |
Excessive Self-control |
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5. Rigid dogmatism |
Abitrary rightness |
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6. Indecision and lack of commitment |
Elusiveness |
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7. Failure to believe in anything |
Cynicism |