PSYB30H3 Lecture 18: Lecture 18
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We can understand much of what goes on in psychotherapy from three frameworks, which include. Psychodynamic; talk about conflicts inherent in their patients, conflicts between id and ego, ego and superego. Unconscious conflicts produce anxieties; defence mechanisms are used to overcome these anxieties. When defence mechanisms fail we can develop symptoms symptom represents expression of underlying conflict. This produces some insight into conflict they have. Cyclical process is expected to occur transference material onto therapist, interpretation of transference, patient"s insight, and then reaction to resistance, which leads to further transference. Cognitive behavioural therapy grows out of modern learning traditions. Notion that antecedent events illicit behaviours, behaviours can be overt or covert. Behaviours have consequences and whether they are rewarding or punitive you will be more or less likely to engage in behaviour in future. Cbt therapists may engage in a number of behavioural experiments with a socially anxious patient for example.
