PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Frontal Lobe, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Contingency Management

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: taylor

Document Summary

Scrape the frontal lobe of the brain off. Used for sever depression that doesn"t respond to anything else. Take electrical currents and put them through the person"s brain. We don"t really know how it works. Used for people who have generalized anxiety disorder. Combination of medication and therapy works best. In a transference, the person now starts to see, experience, and transfer all their unresolved conflicts (usually unconscious) that come from childhood onto the therapist. Therapist"s goal = bring this into consciousness. In counter-transference, therapist transferring their own childhood conflicts. Goals = enhance ego functions and interpersonal relationships. Finding better ways to deal with problems. Counterconditioning approaches (wolpe; based on classical conditioning) Have person create a hierarchy of fear. Wait until they are relaxed in each state, then move. Skip to the top of the hierarchy. Used for habit disorders (alcoholism or smoking) Give them a drug so that if they drink alcohol, they will throw up or become nauseous.