PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Harry Stack Sullivan, Interpersonal Psychotherapy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Medical doctors follow hippocratic oath (says they will cause no harm to patients) Psychologists don"t have this but follow nearly same ritual. A set of processes for resolving personal, emotional, behavioral and social problems improving wellbeing. General term referring to therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purpose of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Historically came from development of psychoanalysis (freud) which later turned into psychodynamic therapies: by freud, forms of insight therapy that emphasizes the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. Came from freud"s understanding of the unconscious. Hypothesized a lot of consciousness comes from unconsciousness (particularly fundamental urges like hunger and sex and aggression) These urges are socially unacceptable and hence this is away of psychological defense (method of protecting ourselves) Making the unconscious conscious would liberate clients and help them gain insight from into their problems and past experiences from which they stem.