PSY 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Problem Gambling, Canadian Mental Health Association, Countertransference
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As a young child, freud witnesses his mother naked during a train ride. Later in his childhood, he dreams of mother in peaceful sleep as she is carried by bird- headed people and laid in bed. Goal: to make what is unconscious, conscious. Four processes involved: (1) free association, (2) resistance, (3) interpretation, (4) insight. Patient says whatever comes to mind regardless of: social convention, logic & order, seeming importance, feelings of embarrassment. Anything that impedes progress: take unconscious content and make it conscious. Provides source of information about the patient. Inappropriate feelings towards analyst: distorted displacements from significant figures in patient"s (past) life, countertransference, therapist displaces feelings onto patients. Analyst discovers hidden meanings and forms of resistance. Communicates these to patients, waiting until patients is ready to hear interpretation. Helps patient to reconstruct childhood experiences that led to neuroses. Likened this process to excavation & reconstruction of archaeological ruin.
