PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Suggestibility

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4030
• Professor: Lorne Sugar

Document Summary

Process is the nature of the relationship between interacting individuals. Having knowledge of previous techniques a client has tried can influence the therapy both positively and negatively. Author of book says b therapists use assessment do not diagnos often professor disagrees cbt therapists value having a diagnosis because it allows us to formulate a treatment plan psychodynamic. If past doesn"t go well we may get stuck. Unconscious is a powerful determinant of behaviour. What happens in our past shapes who we are today. Unstructured bc the therapist has no idea what the client will bring to session on any given day. Therapis is a collaborative expert level of knowledge of human development, and unconscious they posses a theoretical. Modern psychoanalytics are much more likely to collaborate. Content is important but whenever there is something going on in the relationship bw them the content is dropped and process becomes the focus.