PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sertraline, Facial Tissue, Bipolar Disorder
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Goal: bring inner conflicts into awareness & give client control over them. The analyst uses free association to determine blocks to the in the flow . The analyst makes you aware of your resistances and interprets them. A side effect of psychoanalysis is transference, or linking the analyst with personal emotions. Expensive very time consuming not proven as effective as cognitive or behavioral therapies. Psychodynamic therapy same basic goals as psychoanalysis less intensive -> cheaper, faster less emphasis on sexual drives techniques for both therapies: interpretation resistance transference. Effective for: healthier patients who want insight into themselves. Goal: lessen incongruence between real and ideal self. Elements: empathic therapist unconditional positive regard emphasize worthiness of client. Approach: active listening empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. Goal: apply principles of learning to the lamination of unwanted behaviors. Goal: change problem feelings & behaviors by changing thoughts. Daily record of dysfunctional thoughts: identify automatic thoughts, identify rational responses.
