Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Unconditional Positive Regard, Exposure Therapy, Freudian Slip

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Donald Gorassini

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A person that is diagnosed with a psychological disorder could be treated by. Psychological means (irst choice, and is a permeant soluion) A psychological intervenion oten involving conversaion designed to help people resolve emoional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives (p. Refers to those forms of therapy that adhere most closely to the ideas set forth by freud. 1% of psychological therapist is the freudian theory. Psychodynamic therapy includes psychoanalysis and therapies that are more loosely based on. Freud"s ideas, e. g. , bowlby"s atachment theory (secure / unsecure trust to closest atachments). 2001 survey only 10% of those who categorized their therapy as psychodynamic ideniied their speciic method as psychoanalysis. There are two categories of psychotherapy insights and behavioural. Unconscious conlicts oten deriving from early childhood experiences, underlie mental disorders. The most central, uniing idea of all psychodynamic theories mental problems arise from unresolved mental conlicts.