PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Thematic Apperception Test, Aversion Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Lecture notes mar 3, 8, 10, 15. Insight therapy: referred to as talking therapy, purpose is to help patient to gain insight on their behaviours and feelings, help patient to create solution to their problems, behaviour therapy, based on learning principles, biomedical therapy. Type of therapist borrows other techniques from other types of therapists. Bring the problem to consciousness so that the patient can gain insight and re-experience painful emotions (repressed emotions: techniques: Dream analysis (manifest content vs latent content: transference: occurs when the patient expresses his feelings towards the analyst in the way that the patient actually feels toward other important people in their life, projective tests: Involve the presentation of vague or ambiguous stimuli: rorschach: ink blot test, thematic apperception test (tat) Psychodynamic therapies: altered version of freud"s theory, kept the unconscious part of it, interpersonal psychotherapy, instead of focusing on childhood problems, focuses on present problems.