PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Therapeutic Relationship, Crimethinc. Publications, Behaviour Therapy
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Clients engage in complex verbal interactions with their therapists. Goal is to pursue increased insight of the client"s difficulties: behaviour therapy: work on changing client"s overt behaviours. Involves classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning: biomedical therapies: interventions into a person"s logical functioning. Psychiatrist: specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Psychoanalysis: insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defences through techniques such as free association and transference. Freud said that neuroses originate from unresolved conflicts lurking in the unconscious. Free association: clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible. Transference: when clients unconsciously start relating to their therapist in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives: example: client starts relating to a therapist as though the therapist were an overprotective mother. Client transfers conflicting feelings about important people onto their therapist: when a therapist probes sensitive areas, they can expect resistance.
