Descriptive and Psychodynamic Psychopathology EMIs
Michael Reilly, Bangaru Raju in Extended Matching Items for the MRCPsych Part 1, 2018
Acting out.Denial.Displacement.Idealization.Projection.Projective identification.Rationalization.Reaction formation.Repression.Sublimation.Suppression.Undoing.
A patient and carer course: ‘I have friends in the same boat’
Lorna Foyle, Janis Hostad, David Oliviere in Illuminating the Diversity of Cancer and Palliative Care Education, 2018
A result of this sharing seems to be a bringing together of patient and carer, in a deeper level of understanding of each other’s experiences and feelings. It also seems to negate any collusion between them about not saying how each is really feeling, for fear of hurting the other, and so in a gentle and supportive way it helps to restore honesty and trust. Repression can lead to uncontrolled and unpredictable emotional outbursts, emotional lability, or a lack of emotional expression, which can affect closeness. It takes much more energy to maintain secrets, collusion and repressing true feelings and emotions. However, being able to share, to be honest, yet sensitive, to communicate openly, is much less stressful, according to the participants. Energy levels are often already impaired due to illness, or side-effects of treatment, and stress. Mechanisms which can help to conserve, or make best use of, internal resources can only be of benefit.
Anxiety and psychodynamic principles
Devinder Rana, Dominic Upton in Psychology for Nurses, 2013
Repression is a defence mechanism where ‘unacceptable feelings, thoughts and emotions are pushed into the unconscious’ (Hough, 2002). According to Freud, any traumatic incidents encountered are usually repressed into the unconscious and can then manifest themselves in enormous anxiety or, as Lyonfields (1993) suggested, constant worrying. For example, a patient displaying high levels of anxiety when seeing a needle would be explained from the psychodynamic perspective as stemming from earlier negative experiences with injections which were repressed rather than explored.
“There is LGBTQ Life Beyond the Big City”: Discourses, Representations and Experiences in Two Medium-Sized Spanish Cities
Published in Journal of Homosexuality, 2022
Olga Jubany, Jose Antonio Langarita Adiego, Jordi Mas Grau
The first effect of the insult is of a body nature. The heterosexual and cisgender regime shapes a whole “political anatomy of the body” (Foucault, 1976) with sanctions for those bodies that do not conform to sex-gender normality. This is why many LGBTQ people have learned to model—or even suppress—words, gestures and acts in the fear that their social expression may lead to discrimination and violence. A learning that, over time, ends up embodied and reproduced in a mechanical way: You get used to a certain inhibition or non-display […] There is a situation of semi-concealment that you are normalizing, and a number of things that survive: before giving a kiss or a hug, you look around. There is a certain repression. (Lesbian woman, 47 years old. Sabadell)
Discussion of “Phantom Penis: Extrapolating Neuroscience and Employing Imagination for Trans Male Sexual Embodiment”
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2020
Adrienne Harris
In the work unfolding and interrogating female sexuality, the question of an orgasm’s location had powerful effects and meanings. Women’s relative freedom in relation to sexuality, the prohibitive anxieties in relation to sexual expression, and the meanings of pleasure in relation to body parts all play a role in women’s sexual experiences. In the essay, Straayer speaks of the existence of “cortical dead zones” sites in the brain, unactivated cortically. Might we imagine that this relative difference in brain responsiveness has something to do with emotional and social forces permitting or refusing sexual pleasure? Here I am thinking of the history and forces of repression upon women, but indeed, we can think of many kinds of persons who fall under the sway of social repression, across categories of gender, race, and class.
Sex With Chinese Characteristics: Sexuality Research in/on 21st-Century China
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2018
Petula Sik Ying Ho, Stevi Jackson, Siyang Cao, Chi Kwok
The idea that China has undergone a sexual revolution is popular among both Chinese and Western scholars (Burger, 2012; Pan, 2006) but can be misleading. First, it should not be taken as implying a “freeing” of sexuality from “repression,” or the resurgence of “natural” sexual proclivities. This essentialist understanding of sexuality has been rigorously critiqued from a variety of perspectives among scholars of sexuality (Foucault, 1981; Gagnon & Simon, 1973, Gagnon & Simon, 2004; Jackson & Scott, 2010; Jeffreys & Yu, 2015). What we are witnessing is the construction of new forms of sexual subjectivity and changes in sexual mores that are not necessarily liberating. In evaluating the changes that have occurred, it is particularly important to recognize the persistence of gender inequality in China and that, in some respects, it has been exacerbated by the shift to a postsocialist society (Hong-Fincher, 2014; Liu, 2016). While educated young women have more choices and opportunities open to them, the Maoist emphasis on gender equality has been abandoned in favor of promoting forms of femininity that increase women’s vulnerability to exploitation and reinforce their traditional roles and responsibilities within their families (Hong-Fincher, 2014; Liu, 2007, 2016).
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