BIOL 103 Lecture Notes - Brief Psychotherapy, Anxiety Disorder, Personality Disorder
15 Jan 2013
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And the external environment and that significantly do not depend on the id for their energy. They assume that these egos functions and capabilities are present at borth and develop through experience. Ego functions have energies and gratifications of their own usually separate from id impulses. Freud viewed society negatively, ego analysts hold that an indiv social interactions can provide their own special kind of gratification. Brief psychodynamic therapy----freud originally conceived of psychoanalysis as a relatively short term process. Freud envisioned a more active and briefer psychoanalysis than what eventually developed. They found that 59% of those receiving psychoanalysis were women and that the mean # of current diagnoses was four. On average each patient had one diagnosable personality disorder. Overall 82% of the patients had tired other forms of therapy including drug treatment. Most patients had received psychoanalytical treatment for many years. A follow up study found that the average length of treatment was 4. 8 yrs.
