Behavioral Science

Psychoanalytic Theory 27
What are the three main
techniques used in psychoanalysis
and psychodynamic
psychotherapy to uncover
the unconscious?
Which technique is used to describe
the patient expressing “whatever
comes to mind”?
How does the unconscious mind
manifest impulses, wishes,
and fears?
What is the purpose of a defense
mechanism?
What are the mature defense
mechanisms?
What are the immature defense
mechanisms?
Which defense mechanism causes a
patient to take his uncomfortable
feelings toward an unacceptable
target and aim it at a more acceptable
target?
Which defense mechanism allows one
to use a socially acceptable way to
combat an unacceptable impulse?
1. Free association
2. Dream interpretations
3. Transference interpretations
Free association
Through dreams, slips of the tongue,
and forgetting significant things
Maintaining the ego or decreasing
anxiety and maintaining a sense
of self
Humor
Altruism
Sublimation
Suppression
Acting out
Denial
Displacement
Dissociation
Fixation
Identification
Intellectualization
Isolation
Projection
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Regression
Repression
Splitting
Displacement
Sublimation