PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fritz Perls, Active Listening, Psychoanalysis
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Assumption: people are affected by repressed childhood memories (conflicts and impulses, people are cured when energy released from id-ego-superego conflicts. Goal: help people gain insight into the unconscious origins of their disorders, to work through the accompanying feelings. Techniques: hypnosis (ineffective, free association, interpretation of dreams, examination of resistances, transference to the therapist of long-repressed feelings. Criticisms: difficult to refute explanations for behaviour, psychoanalysis is criticized for its after-the-fact interpretations, time-consuming, costly, recent challenges about repressed memories, on which much of psychoanalysis is built. Assumptions: behavioural problems represent the history of ones" beliefs and actions. 5: people need to be responsible to themselves, learn to take control, learn how to make choices. Goals: focus on clients" current conscious feelings, teach individuals to take responsibility for their own growth. Person-centered therapy (rogers): therapist engages in active listening to express genuineness, acceptance, and empathy, increases self-understanding and self-acceptance.
