PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Therapeutic Relationship, Antidepressant, Randomized Controlled Trial
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Treating psychological disorders: therapy: refers to how mental disorders are treated, with the help of the knowledge base of psychology, psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of. Freud believed that patient"s unconscious associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretations of them released previously repressed. Transference: in psychoanalysis, the patient"s transfer to the dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. Resistance: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of. Psychodynamic therapy: therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic analyst of emotions linked with other relationships feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight anxiety-laden material. Techniques tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight. Focus is improved self-awareness and insight into unconscious thoughts and feelings which may be rooted in past relationships. Less focused on insight and past experiences.
