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This chapter defines five core dimensions emphasized in all psychoanalytic models of the mind: topography, motivation, structure/process, development, and psychopathology/treatment. It also provides a quick tour of four leading psychoanalytic models of mental functioning: the Topographic Model, the Structural Model, Object Relations Theory, and Self Psychology. The reader is introduced to the basic outline of the book, which is organized around a chart showing how each psychoanalytic model conceptualizes each of the core dimensions of mental functioning and psychopathology/treatment. The goal of the book is to work toward a unified psychoanalytic model of the mind. Vocabulary introduced in this chapter includes the following: adaptational perspective, developmental lines, developmental point of view, epigenesis, -genetic perspective, hedonic principle, motivational/dynamic point of view, -nature and nurture, pleasure/unpleasure principle, reality principle, structural point of view, and topographic point of view.
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