PSYC 2283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Defence Mechanisms, Introjection, Psychoanalysis
5 Oct 2016
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Psyc 2283 lecture 4 psychoanalysis (continued) Ego must reduce or avoid anxiety by keeping threatening impulses out of the consciousness. Neurotic anxiety: vague feelings caused by sensation that a break through the awareness barrier is imminent. Defensive processes: conscious ego: engage in realistic thinking (logical, rational, unconscious ego: protects against anxiety by conflicting demands of id and superego; perceived danger to ego. Defence mechanisms: techniques to deal with unwanted thoughts and desires; these distort reality. More active by extracting repressed childhood memories. Described in the book, studies on hysteria. Among other techniques used was hypnosis: later technique. Less intrusive: observations led to interpretations (in other words, this was analysis) Patients were encouraged to freely express their thoughts, associations, dreams, and memories: free association. Intentions are to say whatever comes to mind. Client must relax (the classic couch), and produce material that the analyst can record and later interpret; timing must be right: goal was to treat neurosis , transference.
