PSY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anger Management, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Antidepressant
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Verbal interactions intended to enhance self-knowledge to promote healthful changes in personality and behavior. Bring unconscious conflicts to awareness to resolve. Patients spontaneously express thoughts and feelings as they occur. Encouraged to say anything that comes to mind. Patients encouraged and trained to remember dreams to discuss. According to freud--dreams are most direct access to unconscious. Unconscious defensive maneuvers that hinder progress of therapy. Arises because patients don"t want to confront painful/upsetting conflicts in unconscious. Patients start related to their therapists in ways that mimic important relationships in their life. Patients encouraged to do this to face the conflict to come up with a solution. Emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients. Clients play a major role in determining the pace and direction of their therapy. Work to clarify feelings of patients, no interpret. Participants function as therapists for each other. Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders. Goal is to treat biological changes causing disorder.
