1. Psychoanalytic Theory

2. Core Concepts: 1. Psychic Determinism 2. Unconscious Motivation
3. Epigenetic Development
4. Conflict

3. Sub-Theories: Economic/Drive Theory ( Dual Instinct )
Topographic ( UNC, Preconscious, CON )
Structural ( ID, EGO, SUPEREGO )

4. Instincts: Eros (libido) Thanatos (death/aggression)
Love and Death (Creation and Destruction)

5. Cathexis (investment of psychic energy)
Fixation (getting stuck)

6. Structures of the Mind Id instinctual gratification
Pleasure Principle / Primary Process
Ego
reality testing
Reality Principle / Secondary Process
Superego

7. Psychosexual Development
Oral (0-18 mo.)
Pleasure zone: mouth;
Activities: sucking, mouthing, biting etc.
Anal (18-36 mo.)
Pleasure zone: anus
Activity: elimination & retention of feces (control)
Phallic (3-6 yo)
Oedipus Complex

8. Latency
Genital
Personality fixed by the end of Phallic stage

9. Anxiety and Defense Repression Defense Mechanisms Examples:
Projection, Displacement, Reaction Formation, etc.

10. Character
Fixed patterns of conflict and defense.

11. Criticism of Freud Overemphasis on unconscious processes
Overemphasis on “sexual” development
Neglect of interpersonal environment and social learning
Overemphasis on early development
Difficult to operationalize and test
Biased by era and culture

12. Post-Freudian Theories

13. Jung
Collective UNC
Archetypes
Anima/Animus
Introversion/Extraversion

14. Adler
“Individual Psychology” unique individuality and unified strivings of the whole person
Ego functions
Social environment
Inferiority/Superiority
Compensatory Motivation
Inferiority Complex

15. Erikson
Psychosocial Development
Crises

16. OBJECT RELATIONS THEORY
Interpersonal relations and the development of the SELF
Internalized “object” representations
Fundamental role of ATTACHMENT as primary need

17. Klein Stages: 1. (Schizoid) Fusion “Mommy and I are one”
2. (Paranoid) Good bad splitting
similar to “bi-polar representations” (Kernberg)
3. (Depressive) Integration ambivalence & compromise
“good enough mothering”

18. Attachment MAHLER, BOWLBY, AINSWORTH, KERNBERG etc.
responsive parenting
secure/anxious/avoidant attachments

19. Kohut
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Self-objects
Functions
Mirroring

20. Horney
psychosocial and sociocultural factors
“womb envy”

21. ASSESSMENT
tip of the iceberg
ambiguous stimuli

22. Projective Testing Rorschach TAT Murray’s Needs “higher order motives”
Interrater/Interjudge reliability

23. Empirical evidence
Criticism
superficial
isolated
artificial

24. Empirical evidence 1. UNC processing Automaticity 2. UNC motivation
Nisbet & Wilson (unconscious behavior)
Silverman (subliminal activation)
3. Repression
Mixed results
Repressed Memory Debate