PS381 Lecture Notes - Social Forces, Social Constructionism, Specific Phobia
Document Summary
Psychotherapy can occur in a dyad, within a group, or with a family or couple. Class 17 - psychotherapy: basic concepts and applications. A developmental, interpersonal situation consisting of a relationship between sufferer and healer with the goal of relieving problems by altering how the sufferer feels, thinks and acts. Proceeds with history, a beginning, middle and end. Professional relationship between someone who is in psychic pain and someone who has the abilities to heel. Three psychological ways that the suffering is cured with respect to how we feel, think and act. The healer has specialized training and draws on theoretical concepts to apply certain helping techniques. Some psychotherapists are more comfortable with understanding the theoretical backgrounds, others are more pragmatical. Major models of psychotherapy 1 stands for primacy, 3 means least important. Psychoanalysis version pioneered by freud, most important is affect (noun) refers to emotions associated with particular motives, unconscious motivation primarily.
