PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY

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PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGY

• Professor Abdulrazzak M. Alhamad
• Professor of Psychiatry
• Consultant Psychotherapist
• Department of Psychiatry
• College of Medicine
• King Saud University
• Course 303.

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• I. Introduction
• a)Definition
• - One of the models of the mind.
• - Observational metapsychological theory.
• - Experimental and clinical.

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• b) Functions
• - Analyzing human behavior.
• - Understanding psychopathology.
• - A comprehensive approach to understand
  personality.
• - A method of psychotherapy.

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• c) Modern Concepts
• - Integrative approach.
• - Accumulative.
• - Ongoing revision.

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• II. Concepts
• - Conscious.
• - Preconscious.
• - Unconscious.
• - Id.
• - Superego.
• - Ego.
• - Ego Ideal.

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• III. Instincts
• -Libido Mind representation of sex.
• -Ego instinct self-preservation
• -Aggression instinct.
• -Death and life instinct.
• -Object Relation
• 1-Loved person.
• 2-Loved self.
• 3-Loved object.
• -Pleasure principle avoids pain.
• -Reality principle learned maturation of ego.

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• IV. Working Methods
• - Conflicts.
• - Dreams.
• - Free association.
• - Tongue slips.
• - Transference.
• - Resistance.

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• V. Mental (Defense) Mechanisms
• - Mostly unconscious.
• - Mostly illogical.
• - Psychological homeostasis.
• - Cope with psychopathology.

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Examples

• 1-Repression.
• 2-Regression.
• 3-Projection.
• 4-Reaction formation.
• 5-Sublimation.
• 6-Rationalization.

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• VI. Models
• 1. Topographical

Unconscious Preconscious Defense Mechanisms Conscious
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• 2. Structural

Id Ego Ideal Super Ego Ego
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• 3. Transactional Analysis
• - Ego States
• Child --- Adult --- Parent.
• Id------ Ego ---- Superego.

Unknown to Self Known to Self
B Blind Self A Public Self Known to others
D Unconscious Self C Secret Self Unknown to others
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• 4-Self Centred Analysis
• Self actualization.
• Real self.
• Ideal self.
• Factors
• 10-Genuiness.
• 11-Positive unconditional regards.
• 12-Empathy.

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• 5-General System Theory
• -Self system.
• -Family system.
• -Society system.
• -Environmental effect.
• -Holistic approach.

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References

• 1-Synopsis of Psychiatry, Chapter, Theories of
  Personality and Psychopathology.
• 2-Introduction to Psychotherapy. Part 1.
  Psychodynamic Principles.
• 3-The course Textbook Human Behavioral, an
  introduction for medical students, edited, Alan
  Stoudemire.