Blocking threatening information or thoughts from awareness
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What is Repression?
Focusing memories from the conscious to the unconscious mind. Repression is a kind of motivated forgetting of unpleasant thoughts or memories.
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What is Rationalism?
Reinterpreting events or memories to make them safer to the ego.
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What is Projection?
Projecting forbidden emotions onto others. For example; What we see in others is sometimes in ourselves.
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What is displacement?
Finding a different outlet for feelings, for example; transferring anger towards a parent to an "outgroup".
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What is Sublimation?
A change of state in the way mental energy is directed, such as; sexual drive is directed away from partners and into activities such as collecting items.
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What is reaction formation?
Changing an emotion into it's over emphasised opposite. Such as; Changing love or hatred into aggressively expressed praise
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Therapists and counsellors try to understand the unconscious mind by...
The ink blot test, exploring dreams and thematic Accerception Test
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What is thematic apperception?
Asking a client to make up a story about a picture
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What is a Freudian Slip?
A psychological error in speaking or writing, it shows evidence of some unconscious urge, desire, or conflict and struggle. It occurs when the ego or superego are not doing their job properly elements of the id slip out or are seen.
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What is ID?
The ID makes “I want” demands and operates on the pleasure principle.
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What is Ego?
This develops as the child starts to take control of their body, it involves all the things the child has learned about how to act in an appropriate way.
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What is your Super Ego?
The Super Ego represents the demands made by society about the way that we behave. It acts as our conscience.
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