Exam 7: The Relational Self of Object-Relations Theories

Your boyfriend of two years dumps you. You head over to your best friend's house and begin talking about how he was a player, jerk, and an idiot who would have never really made you happy. You would be using which defense mechanism?

Which of the following asserted that analysts must also address issues with living persons, existing in the outer world and not enshrined in memory?

Anna Freud's work with children nudged psychoanalysis into a more direction.

Unconscious strategies the ego employs for keeping anxiety, guilt, unacceptable impulses, and other threats to the ego out of awareness is known as

When a therapist uses a treatment method that encourages children to use puppets, finger paints, clay, blocks, and other toys to express their feelings, they are following the example of

Jacob believes that his piano playing is comparable to John Tesh's. Yet when he plays it sounds more like "Chop-sticks." Horney would describe this neurotic discrepancy as

Which of these is NOT one of Horney's interpersonal styles?

Freud viewed having love and hate for the same object as negative, whereas Klein viewed ambivalence positively because

The term is defined as psychologically transporting oneself back to a previous time where former fixations and bygone defenses abound.

What are defense mechanisms?

Who was the first psychoanalyst to describe personality as the "four selves"?

Attempting to understand phenomena in terms of beginnings is known as

What is symbiosis?

Freud referred to psychosexual stages, whereas Klein preferred to use the term

Transforming unacceptable impulses into societally-prized behaviors is known as

According to Horney, the despised real self is

Horney defined as the feeling a child has of being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world.

Freud viewed the ego as the mediator between the ever conflicting id and superego. In contrast, Klein viewed the ego as the great

Who did Freud describe as a "most gifted and accomplished female"?

Freud viewed as having a primarily negative connotation, whereas Klein viewed it as positive because love and hate could be sorted out and dealt with separately.