Personality Adjustment and Conflict人格的调整和冲突.pptVIP

Do Now: What do you think about yawning? Is your nose itchy? Come on…just a little bit itchy? Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue Amnesia: forgetting event due to psychological trauma Retrograde and Anterograde: Retrograde: Forgetting everything in the past Anterograde: Forgetting new memories Dissociative Fugue: Flight from home – forget identity but NOT skills Reign Over Me Test Choose two (2) characters from Reign Over Me and discuss: A defense mechanism they used and why? A definition of the defense mechanism Which of their defense mechanisms proved helpful at first? Which was the most damaging? If you could write a conclusion for the film; what would it be? Personality Adjustment and ConflictThe Healthy PersonalitySelf Defense Mechanisms Who controls what happens in your life? How strong is the power of suggestion? Psychological issues can impact biology Extreme examples: voo-doo, sudden death syndrome, etc. Somatoform Disorders: condition in which psychological issues are expressed in bodily symptoms in the absence of any real physical problem. Mild examples: man feels morning sickness due to wife’s pregnancy, etc. Hey, we only have a week to go! Yes, but mine’s going to be gone after that. What are Conversion Disorders? Serious psychological trauma that converts itself into a real dysfunction. Severe examples: hysterical blindness, false pregnancy, hysterical paralysis. These physical symptoms DO exist, but are rare. Hypochondrasis: more common conversion disorder. Over concern about health. Can begin from childhood when great attention was paid to them when they were sick, and not under healthy conditions Munchausen’s By Proxy: attempting to get attention by making your own child sick. Defense Mechanisms Defense mechanisms help us cope with unbearable thoughts, feelings and wishes. The idea of this comes from Freud Why do we use defense mechanisms? How do we keep our personalities from getting beat up while we are building them? Defense Mechanisms do