PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalytic Theory, Carl Jung
2 Oct 2017
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Psychoanalysis- it refers technically to psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy (the change process) guided by psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic theorists fall into 5 broad camps: freudians, revisionist stage theorists, motivational psychologists, ego psychologists, object relations theorists. Most psychoanalytic theorists contend that motivating forces derive from processes that occur beyond the conscious awareness of the individual. Most also believe personality develops over the course of progression through an invariant sequence of stages characterized by intrapsychic conflict. The 4 basic issues in personality psychology theory, assessment, research, and application are highly intertwined in the psychoanalytic strategy. Most psychoanalysts are therapists and are directly involved with personality change, which requires assessment of people"s intrapsychic processes. Observations made in psychoanalytic therapy form both the basis of personality theory and the research evidence in support of the theory"s validity. The psychoanalytic strategy has been dominated by the work and writings of a single individual:
