CSP 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Panic Disorder, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 280
• Professor: Estrada

Document Summary

Psychic determinism: theorizes that all mental processes are not spontaneous but are determined by the unconscious or preexisting mental complexes. It relies on the causality principle applied to psychic occurrences in which nothing happens by chance or by accidental arbitrary ways. Freudian theory: personality structures are id (no values or logic, obeys pleasure principle), ego (obeys reality principle), superego (arise out of resolution, morality); psychosexual stages (many symptoms reflect failure to negotiate stage and move on) Defense mechanisms: used by ego to protect against the id and the superego (repression, fixation, regression, reaction formation, projection) Insight no more need for defenses no more symptoms (develop understanding of unconscious determinants of irrational feelings, thought or behaviors) Transference: therapists comes to represent a key childhood figure and patient projects feelings onto him/her, recreating the conflicts and problems in the therapy office. Analysis of dreams: freud believed dreams were laden with unconscious wishes. Interpretation: reveals unconscious meaning of thoughts and behaviors.