PSYB30H3 Lecture 18: Lecture 18 - notes
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The context and content of the life-story is more than just the content and context of one"s traits and motives. Psychotherapy can be viewed as one way of systematically revising one"s own life-story, and it may contribute towards making a more coherent life story. We can understand much of what goes on, from a theoretical point of view, during psychotherapy, from 3 particular frameworks/categories/classifications of psychotherapy that dominated during the 20th century: These conflicts produce anxieties, and it is the nature of the psyche to respond to these anxieties by virtue of (unconscious) defence mechanisms (repress, deny, project, sublimate etc. ) and when these defences fail, the patients present symptoms. In this case however, the symptom itself represents an underlying conflict. The goal, as a psychodynamic therapist, is to serve as a blank canvas, onto which the patient can project all of their motivational unconscious issues (transference).
