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PSY234: Post-Freudian Psychodynamic Accounts (Neuropsychoanalysis…

- - - - Dopamine
  - - - Care
      - Panic/grief (seperation distress)
      - Rage
      - Play
      - Fear (freeze/slight)
      - Seeking (appetite foraging); mesolimbic-mesocortical dopamine pathway
      - Lust
    - - Expecting/wanting system
        
        2) Generate anticipation & excitement (instinctive)
        
        3) Coupling- link drives to objects (learned)
        
        1) Goal directed activites
        
        4) Enacting- consummatory actions (cognitive)
      - Comparison to Freud
        
        Freud
        
        Aim
        
        Object
        
        Somatic source
        
        Motor factor
        
        Seeking system
        
        Reg. Imbalance
        
        Consumation
        
        External stimulus
        
        Energetic energy
  - - - Psychoanalysis
        
        Fantasies & dreams
        
        Repression
        
        Unconscious thought
        
        Emotions
      - Neuroscience
        
        Anatomy
        
        Cognition
        
        Perception
        
        Learning & memory
- - - - Not present at birth
    - - In-built ego function
      - Adapting internal needs to the environment
        
        Judgement
        
        Coping Strategies
        
        Impulse control
        
        Identity
        
        Reality testing
        
        Memory
- - - - Rejection: splits in ego: repression of neediness (Vulnerable libidinal ego)
      - Anti-libidinal Ego: coping, agressive
      - Central ego @ birth: need for relationships
      - Schizoid states: no desire for relationships
    - - An unconscio
      - Current interpersonal relationships are unconsciously internalised
    - - Aim of personality is to form relationships
      - Critical of impersonal drives
      - Libido= 'object seeking' does not equal gratification
  - - - Mirroring: helps child organise experience & know what is felt (anxiety, anger)
      - Development of self-object differentiation (child's feelings are enacted, not the adults)
      - We find our minds in the minds of our caregivers
    - - Important for self-regulation
      - If not contained = child is not helped to self-regulate
      - Reflects mental state and re-represents it as manageable
    - - Relationships allow understanding of ourselves & others in terms of mental states
    - - Deficit model: not receiving adequate feedback (caregiver insensitivity)
      - Trauma & abandonment impairs mentalisation: deficits in
        
        Self-object confusion
        
        Affect regulation
        
        Processing social-emotional information
      - Borderline personality disorder
        
        Mentalising Deficit
        
        Mentalising based therapy
        
        Therapist: adopts a medntalising stance & reflects back on their experiences
        
        Successful BPD treatment
        
        Symptoms
        
        Identity disturbances (unstable self-image)
        
        Impulsivity
        
        Unstable relationships: alternating b/w extreme idealisation & devaluation (splitting)
        
        Affective instability (anxiety, anger)
        
        Avoid real/imagined abandonment