PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aaron T. Beck, Unconditional Positive Regard, Unconscious Mind

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

Document Summary

Came out of humanist perspectives of psychology. Client instead of patient to create equality. Conflicts that live in the unconscious mind. The first two focus on personality whereas the third is cognition (refer to slide. Talking lead, the psychoanalysis to be able to differentiate between. It takes 3-5 years to see improvement conscious and unconscious. Resistance means the therapist are on the right track: neo-freudian made efforts to modernize efforts. He didn"t believe in unconscious and id super ego and ego. Eliminate incongruent: incongruence comes from belief affection from. Distort shortcomings to feel worthy of affection. Root of the problem is that belief that affection is conditional other is conditional. Three ways to combat it: unconditional positive regard, genuineness, empathy. Aaron beck: didn"t believe the problem was personality but rather. Maladaptive thoughts were the cause of emotional distress. Beck might only be treating the symptoms of depression but not the cause/underlying problem.