PSYC3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Functional Contextualism, Relational Frame Theory, Social Skills
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Treatment drugs (serendipitous discovery like lithium), electro-convulsive shock treatment. Limitations of biological model narrow perspective, neglects the impact of psychological events on cause, course and treatment, biomedical treatments sometimes produce negative side effects (medications) Neo freudians jung (unlike freud, de-emphasis of biological drives, collective unconscious, archetypes (ancient images derived from the collective unconscious)), erickson (formation of ego identity and psychosocial development, life-span developmental psychology, 8 psychosocial stages of development. Freud"s s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373) for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) traumatic childhood experience > defence mechanisms (forgetting) > symptoms. Freud"s s(cid:455)(cid:373)pto(cid:373) re(cid:373)oval free associations (dreams) > recovery of forgotten material > awareness and interpretation of forgotten material > symptoms removal. Limitations of psychodynamic theory resistance to empirical investigation, emphasises abnormality rather than psychological health, has(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)tri(cid:271)uted to preve(cid:374)tio(cid:374) or earl(cid:455) intervention methods, freud assumed that the interpersonal phenomena he observed were universal. Origins humanistic (1940s, carl rogers, client centred therapy), existential (derived from ideas of existential philosophers.
