PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Psychological Intervention, Fritz Perls, Unconditional Positive Regard
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Psychotherapy psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems + improve quality of their lives. Clinical psychologist has phd, research, fellowships. Psychiatrist medical doctor who has gone to medical school and specializes in psychology: can prescribe drugs, more science oriented. Counseling psychologist, clinical social worker, psychiatric nurse, pastoral counselor, etc. Eclectic psychotherapy trained in multiple perspectives + tailors to individual. Goal is to help client achieve insight; bring problems into awareness so you can better deal with them. Free association: client reports what enters mind without censorship/filtering, then therapist offers explanation for what they said. Dream analysis: disguised clues to unconscious. Signals that anxiety arousing material is being approached: resistance defensive maneuvers that hinder process of therapy. Transference client responds to analyst as if he or she were an important figure from client"s life: sometimes client can transfer feelings for someone else onto therapist, two forms. Positive client transfers feelings of intense affection, dependency, love.
