PSY 1102 Lecture 7: Chapter 16 Therapy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Biomedical therapy - psychiatrists: prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology, drug therapies, brain stimulation (ect, rtms), psychosurgery. First and only (at the time) psychotherapy. People don"t know themselves: unaware of their unconscious, psychoanalysis reveals these unconscious issues - provides insight to the person. Techniques: dream analysis - interpret the latent content from the manifest content (dreams express what is going on in your unconscious mind in a disguised way) - manifest. Things that ego tries to do that get analyzed - Resistance - the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material, editing out details that may be embarrassing, pausing before revealing something sensitive, making jokes, changing the subject - therapist interprets the meaning of your resistance. Therapist interprets these feelings to help identify the past anxiety laden relationship: interpretation - the analyst"s noting supposed resistances, dream meanings, and other signi cant behaviours and events in order to promote insight.