PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Dream Interpretation
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Women are more likely than men and caucasian americans are more likely to go than asians and hispanic americans. The choice of therapist tends to be more important than the actual therapy. Insight therapies, psychotherapies with the goal of expanding awareness or insight. Sigmund freud"s psychoanalysis was the first form of psychoanalysis. Believed that abnormal behavior was caused by unconscious feelings, this the goal of psychoanalytic therapy was to make the unconscious conscious (clear away guilt and hurtful emotional nuisances) Dream analysis, dreams express unconscious themes that influence conscious life. Interpretation, formulate explanations from the free associations and dream analysis (create hypothesis about the root of the patient"s problems) Resistance, attempts to avoid confrontation and anxiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses. Transference, projecting intense, unrealistic feeling and expectations from the past onto the therapist. Working through, confronting and resolving problems, conflicts and ineffective coping responses in everyday life.
