PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ambivalence
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Help clients become aware of problematic defenses. Guide clients to use different, more mature/healthy defenses. Speak freely about whatever comes to mind. Guide clients to see contradictions in what they say. Help them see they have mixed feelings, or. Suggest an explanation for a client"s feeling or experience. Often relates to a past experience or relational pattern. Clients experience or treat the therapist as though s/he were some other figure from their life. Be analyzing the relationships between therapist and client, the therapist can better understand client patterns. Highlighting this here and now evidence is powerful for helping clients see the ways they relate to others. Makes interpretations about very early life experiences (infancy) Therapy is long (2+ years) and intensive (2 - 5x/week) Clarify, confront, and interpret much more frequently. Use the relationship b/w client and therapist to demonstrate interpretations. May focus on only one specific issue.
