PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Anxiety Disorder, Benzodiazepine, Reuptake
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Use words and acts to overcome psychological difficulties biological therapies. Relationship between client and psychologist and technique: psychodynamic therapies freud"s therapy: psychoanalysis. Conflicts between the unconscious/irrational impulses (id) and super ego. How? awareness of id, reduces some compliance with super ego, strength to the ego. What is the problem? repression, how you handle conflicts, suppressing at an unconscious level insight = conscious awareness of psychodynamic underlying problems psychodynamic techniques. 2. free association and catharsis resistance: dream analysis. Patient encouraged to explore intense and strong feelings. Feelings that they have reprised for fear of punishment/retaliation. Resistance: defensive maneuver, unwillingness or inability to discuss certain topics, sign that anxiety-arousing material is being approached. Therapists help clients understand the symbolic meaning of their dreams. Client responds rationally to therapist like he/she was important figure from client"s past. First practitioners to demonstrate the value of systematically applying both theory and techniques to treatment. First to suggest the potential of psychological instead of biological treatment.
