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Frued - ✔✔founder of psychoanalysis; levels of consciousness (id, ego, superego); defense mechanisms
(denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression,
sublimation); psychosexual stages of development
Mentor: Breuer - Anna O
Adler - ✔✔individual psychology - internal drive, society, and others influence individual development.
Child Guidance Movement
Working with children
Birth Order
Inferiority Complex
Dreikers - ✔✔Brought Adler's Child Guidance Movement to the US
One of the first to practice family therapy
founded Family Counseling Centers
Psychopathology of the parents are the cause of the child's symptoms
Lewin - ✔✔Field Theory
Group greater than sum of members
Developed Process Change
Process Change (Lewin) - ✔✔Stage 1: Unfreezing - creating motivation and readiness to change
Stage 2: Changing - helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things differently based on a new
POV.
Stage 3: Refreezing - helping the client to integrate the new POV into the organization as well as
individual personality
,Bion - ✔✔process vs content
predictable properties emerge out of group dynamics
Moreno - ✔✔psychodrama
Laqueur - ✔✔Multiple Family Group Therapy
Psychodrama
Co-Therapists
etiology - ✔✔cause of disease
etiology - ✔✔Heredity, high dopamine levels, high exposure to stress
1. when the individual got better, at least one other individual got worse
2. symptom reduction in hospital then symptoms reemerge at home
3. #2 + significant disruptions within home reported
Russell - ✔✔Theory of Logical Types defined systems within systems
Hierarchies based on levels of abstraction
Influenced Bateson
Popenoe - ✔✔Founded American Institute of Family Relations
Mudd - ✔✔Founded Marriage Council of Philidelphia then AAMFT
Ackerman - ✔✔Father of Family Therapy
classify family system as the client
first therapist on record to work with families
psychoanalysis
, Founded Family Treatment Center of New York which became Ackerman Institute
Used self-disclosure and non-verbal queues
Tickling the defenses - teasing family members to speak their minds
Bertalanffy - ✔✔General Systems Theory - whole is greater than sum of parts
Wynne - ✔✔psychoanalytic
Pseudomutuality, pseudohostility, rubber-fence boundary
Pseudomutuality - ✔✔wynn'es pattern of interaction that maintains a facade of mutuality and harmony
that is often devoid of intimacy because the fear of conflict makes the experience of getting close to
another too risky to undertake
Pseudohostility - ✔✔Wynne's term to describe the use of chronic conflict to create a somewhat
superficial alienation of family members, thereby masking an individual member's need for intimacy and
affection.
Rubber-fence Boundary - ✔✔Wynne' s term for families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impenetrable to information from the outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to
separation" Appear open and flexible but are closed.
Levy - ✔✔Maternal Overprotectiveness
schizophrenia
Maternal Overprotectiveness - ✔✔Mothers who had themselves been deprived of love become
overprotective of their children. Children with domineering mothers were submissive at home, but had
difficulty making friends. Children with indulgent mothers were disobedient at home, but well behaved
at school.
Fromm-Reichmann - ✔✔schizophrenogenic mother
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Frued - ✔✔founder of psychoanalysis; levels of consciousness (id, ego, superego); defense mechanisms
(denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression,
sublimation); psychosexual stages of development
Mentor: Breuer - Anna O
Adler - ✔✔individual psychology - internal drive, society, and others influence individual development.
Child Guidance Movement
Working with children
Birth Order
Inferiority Complex
Dreikers - ✔✔Brought Adler's Child Guidance Movement to the US
One of the first to practice family therapy
founded Family Counseling Centers
Psychopathology of the parents are the cause of the child's symptoms
Lewin - ✔✔Field Theory
Group greater than sum of members
Developed Process Change
Process Change (Lewin) - ✔✔Stage 1: Unfreezing - creating motivation and readiness to change
Stage 2: Changing - helping the client to see, judge, feel, and react to things differently based on a new
POV.
Stage 3: Refreezing - helping the client to integrate the new POV into the organization as well as
individual personality
,Bion - ✔✔process vs content
predictable properties emerge out of group dynamics
Moreno - ✔✔psychodrama
Laqueur - ✔✔Multiple Family Group Therapy
Psychodrama
Co-Therapists
etiology - ✔✔cause of disease
etiology - ✔✔Heredity, high dopamine levels, high exposure to stress
1. when the individual got better, at least one other individual got worse
2. symptom reduction in hospital then symptoms reemerge at home
3. #2 + significant disruptions within home reported
Russell - ✔✔Theory of Logical Types defined systems within systems
Hierarchies based on levels of abstraction
Influenced Bateson
Popenoe - ✔✔Founded American Institute of Family Relations
Mudd - ✔✔Founded Marriage Council of Philidelphia then AAMFT
Ackerman - ✔✔Father of Family Therapy
classify family system as the client
first therapist on record to work with families
psychoanalysis
, Founded Family Treatment Center of New York which became Ackerman Institute
Used self-disclosure and non-verbal queues
Tickling the defenses - teasing family members to speak their minds
Bertalanffy - ✔✔General Systems Theory - whole is greater than sum of parts
Wynne - ✔✔psychoanalytic
Pseudomutuality, pseudohostility, rubber-fence boundary
Pseudomutuality - ✔✔wynn'es pattern of interaction that maintains a facade of mutuality and harmony
that is often devoid of intimacy because the fear of conflict makes the experience of getting close to
another too risky to undertake
Pseudohostility - ✔✔Wynne's term to describe the use of chronic conflict to create a somewhat
superficial alienation of family members, thereby masking an individual member's need for intimacy and
affection.
Rubber-fence Boundary - ✔✔Wynne' s term for families are seemingly yielding, but are in fact nearly
impenetrable to information from the outside; boundaries bind them together in their resistance to
separation" Appear open and flexible but are closed.
Levy - ✔✔Maternal Overprotectiveness
schizophrenia
Maternal Overprotectiveness - ✔✔Mothers who had themselves been deprived of love become
overprotective of their children. Children with domineering mothers were submissive at home, but had
difficulty making friends. Children with indulgent mothers were disobedient at home, but well behaved
at school.
Fromm-Reichmann - ✔✔schizophrenogenic mother
