PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Emergence, Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test
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The psychoanalytic approach began with freud"s discovery of the unconscious and the use of free association. Psychoanalysis ushered in a new form of scientific inquiry of the study of the mind and self. Almost all contemporary systems of psychotherapy have their roots in psychoanalysis and base many of their constructs and principles on freud"s foundation. In structural-drive theory, the psychodynamic psychotherapist conceptualizes symptoms as manifestations of unconscious drives and conflicts among intrapsychic agencies (id, ego, super ego). Conflicts between the desire for gratification and societal restraints, along with developmental and traumatic events, may emerge in symptoms and characterological patterns that are ways in which equilibrium is attempted. Ego psychology, added to structural-drive theory, emphasized the concept of defenses and how they are utilized. Anna freud"s the ego and mechanisms of defense 9 individual defenses: regression = the return to an earlier level of functioning to avoid anxiety and tension.
