Psychoanalytic Therapy

Key Points:

• Structure of personality:
• ID
• EGO
• SUPEREGO

• Conscious and Unconscious mind

• Anxiety
• Reality anxiety: the fear of danger from the external world

• Neurotic anxiety: the fear that instincts will get out of hand and cause oneself to do something that will cause retaliation

• Moral anxiety: the fear of one's own conscience

• Ego-Defense Mechanisms
• Repression
• Denial
• Reaction formation
• Projection
• Displacement
• Rationalization
• Sublimation
• Regression
• Introjection
• Identification
• Compensation

• Development of Personality
• Psychosexual stages
• Oral stage
• Anal stage
• phallic stage
• genital stage

Therapeutic Goals:
 The ultimate goal of psychoanalytic treatment is to increase adaptive functioning, which involves the reduction of symptoms and the resolution of conflicts.

 Techniques:

• "Blank-Screen" Approach
• Transference
• Working-through
• Free Association
• Dream Analysis
• Interpretation