PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aversion Therapy, Hans Eysenck, Social Skills

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Insight therapies: verbal interactions between therapist and client lead to insights about the client"s difficulties and possible solutions. Practiced by sigmund freud and is still influential today. He treated patients with neuroses (anxiety and somatoform disorders). Symptoms were caused by unresolved conflicts from childhood buried in the unconscious and defense mechanisms suppressed awareness of the conflicts. The goal is to reorganize personality (3 to 5 years). Probing the unconsciousness: free association (spontaneous and uncensored expression of thoughts and feelings) and dream analysis. Interpretation: therapist explaining the inner significance of patient"s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behavior. Resistance: unconscious defensive maneuvers hinder the progress of therapy. Transference: patient unconsciously relates to therapist in ways that mimic critical relationships. Modern psychodynamic therapies: adapt psychoanalysis to different cultures, changing times and new kinds of patients. He treated clients with neuroses with a goal to reorganize personality (as anxiety results from incongruence and defense mechanisms exacerbate incongruence).