PSYC 2F23 Lecture Notes - James W. Pennebaker, William Henry Stiles, Shared Experience
Document Summary
Counterintuitive things to learn and discover about process of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy outcome literature, the literature that exists and concerns relative efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy, do people get better, disclosure, revealing oneself, and the role of disclosure in conveying a narrative, or one"s life story. Various schools of psychotherapy, three primary forces, psychodynamic, behavioural and humanistic. Psychoanalysis, psychodynamic model key ideas is conflict and production of anxiety, and wide range approaches of trying to remedy a patient of defences we have. Processes of producing change in psychoanalysis, transference is basic process in which patient comes into office and projects their issues to therapist, and therapist role is to interpret what is going on which produces resistance and insight. Cognitive behavioural approach to change, learning model where there is a situation, behaviours and a consequence (behavioural experiments) Mechanisms we use to produce change, restructuring cognition and beliefs and testing them.