History of psychological terms

History of psychological terms


The following terms come up in the exams and Candidates are expected to know who they are associated with:-

  • Winnicott - Good enough mother, transitional object
  • Carl Jung - Collective unconscious, archetype, anima, animus
  • Melanie Klein - Paranoid-schizoid position, depressive position, splitting
  • Sigmund Freud - Free association, transference, ego, super-ego, id, eros, thanatos, defense mechanisms, oedipus Complex, the unconscious
  • Wilfred Bion - Basic assumption group
  • Karen Horney - Womb envy
  • Erving Goffman - Total institution
  • Siegfried Foulkes - Foundation matrix
  • Barton - Institutional Neurosis