PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Active Listening, Dream Interpretation, Socratic Method
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Psychotherapy: any of a group of therapies used to treat psychological disorders and to improve psychological functioning and adjustments to life. Psychoanalysis: freud"s therapeutic technique for analyzing and bringing unconscious thoughts and conflicts into conscious awareness. Free association: in psychoanalysis, reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents. Dream analysis: in psychoanalysis, interpretation of the underlying true meaning of dreams to reveal conscious processes. Traditional psychoanalysis v. psychodynamic therapies two types differ grouped together as talk therapies emphasis on client to therapist communication. Psychoanalysis a person"s mind (psyche) is analyzed abnormal behavior is caused by conflicts that are unconscious -- conflicts in id, ego, superego. Free association: the therapist encourages client to say anything that comes to mind without thinking about it. Dream analysis: dreams are the road to the unconscious -- the mind can truly express itself during sleep -- dreams are the royal road to the vision .
