PSYC 11762 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Elizabeth Loftus, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Behaviour Therapy

• School: Kent State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 11762
• Professor: Christopher Flessner

Document Summary

We will look at four major forms of psychotherapy based on different theories on human nature: psychoanalysis. The first formal psychotherapy to emerge was psychoanalysis developed by sigmund freud: psychoanalysis: aims, the aim of psychoanalysis is to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness where the patient can deal with them. Dissatisfied with hypnosis, freud developed the method of free association to unravel the unconscious mind and its conflicts: psychoanalysis: methods. During free association, the patient edits his thoughts to resist his feelings and to express his emotions. Such resistance becomes important in the analysis of conflict-driven anxiety: dream interpretation, freud spent a great deal of time analyzing dreams. Manifest (what happened) content and latent (what is means) content: psychoanalysis: criticisms, psychoanalysis is hard to refute because it cannot be proven or disproven. False memories elizabeth loftus: psychoanalysis takes a long time and is very expensive, three psychodynamic approaches: (focus more on society and our relationships with others)