PSYC*3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Gestalt Therapy, Fritz Perls
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Use psychosocial treatments such as: moral therapy, psychotherapy, freud. Founder of psychoanalytic therapy which is about: tapping into unconscious mind by using techniques like, catharsis (recall and relive emotional trauma to release tension) free association, dream analysis. Psychosexual stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital. Ego/self psychology (a. freud ego and mechanisms of defence 1946) Object relations: separate world through eyes of person incorporated into self. Transference (project something onto another person: freud. Denial: refusing to accept the truth, ex. Projection: **: redirect own unacceptable behaviour to someone else, ex. Accuse boyfriend of cheating when i was the one who cheated: don"t want to blame self so blame others. Displacement: **: redirect energy for someone less threatening but intended for someone else, ex. Instead of getting angry and yelling at boss, i go home and yell at my brother: want to blame someone but end up blaming innocent other. Sublimation: redirect energy to do something constructive or socially acceptable.
