Chapter 4 Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory: Applications...

Valid but not efficient, so Freud sought out new assessment methods including projective tests

Defining feature is that they are ambiguous. Individual will project aspects of his or her own personality onto the ambiguous when interpreting it. May reveal underlying unconscious psychodynamic

Showed images to hospitalized patients and identified inkblots that elicited different responses from different psychiatric groups with 10 cards

Consists of cards depicting ambiguous scene. Person asked to make up a story based on each. Individual personality may be projected onto the stimuli

At any given developmental stage, the individual may experience a failure in the development of the instincts.

Individual seeks to return to an earlier mode of satisfaction

NarcissisticOthers seen only in terms of what they can give (feed)

Sees excretion as symbolic of enormous power. Has anal triad

1. Orderliness and cleanliness= defense against disorder2. Parsimony and stinginess=need to hold onto things3. Obstinacy=struggle over toilet training

Different for men and womenMen= I AM MANExhibition quality is expressive of castration anxiety, must assert masculinity at all timesFemales=HYSTERICAL PERSONALITYUses seductive behavior to maintain interest of her father but deny sexual intent

Coming to grips with emotions and unconscious wishes in a safe environment

Psychoanalysis frees people to resume normal psychological development

Redistributes energy so more is available for mature and more gratifying activities

Puts ego in control and makes unconscious desires conscious

Patients project attitudes from other relationships onto analyst. Analyst is a mirror onto which patient sees wishes and anxieties