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Self Psychology
Major concepts and tools
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Self Psychology-Defined | The worker uses the self to provide an empathetic and growth-producing experience for the client and is committed to avoiding the repetition of past injuries that have emotionally injured client. |
| Self-object | person who is experienced intrapsychically as providing an enduring sense of availability to another individual. (Begins in infant development and the self object is the caregiver) |
| Mirroring | Self-object relationship; recognizes unique capabilities and talents |
| Idealizing | Self-object relationship; links to admired care-givers (worker, family member, etc.) |
| Alter ego (*Twinship* or Partnering) | Self-object relationship; provides sense of sameness with the self-object that is essential for psychic growth, attainment of skills, and sense of competence. e.g.: Simply using the term "We" instead of "you" |
| Transmuting internalization | Major concept: individual gradually performs psychological functions, even in the absence of original self-objects, including self sooth, self-comfort, and self-empathize. (Initially provided to the patient by the therapist) |
| Self-object failure | Results in shame and humiliation due to an on-going feeling of helplessness |
| Maturity | ability to evoke and engage in mutually enriching self-object relationships with others throughout the life span. |
| Empathy | Tool used in therapy; "vicarious introspection" in which the therapist can investigate the inner world of the patients through the use of empathy; utilizes to collect data, immerse themselves into patient's experience, & reflect meaning of that experience |
| Two-person psychology | patient's feelings are views as determined by past experiences, current behaviors, and the relationship with the therapist in the present; therapist should share their experience of the patient with the patient. |
| optimal frustration | minor experiences of therapist's empathetic failures; can contribute to the building of intrapsychic structure because the patient can learn how to tolerate frustration. |
| Treatment of Children/Adolescents | understand the self-object needs presented by the chid and respond accordingly; work with parents to obtain this as well. |
| Treatment of Children/Adolescents with Learning Disabilities | Identify high risk areas of development of maladaptive defenses before they become part of the structure of the personality; therapist becomes the self-object for the child and the caregiver. |
| Self psychology and self harm in adolescents | failures to respond to child's self object needs can result in self injury behaviors that are compulsive efforts that serve as a substitute for self-regulating functions that are missing; therapists should use informed empathy. |
| Informed empathy | educating caregivers/patients while providing empathy |
| Self psychology and the Elderly | Main concept: maintaining/restoring self-esteem in the wake of biological, psychological, and social stresses |
| Brief Treatment | Enhance the patient's self esteem and restore the level of functioning prior to a loss of self-object that has weakened the sense of self. |
| "Cure" | patient's ability to identify and seek out appropriate self-objects in their surroundings and to be emotionally sustained by them. |
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