PSY BEH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Psychosexual Development, Psychoanalysis, Operant Conditioning
25 Mar 2017
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Psychological therapy (psychotherapy) -- communication between therapist and patient to overcome the patient"s psychological difficulties. Biomedical therapy -- medications used to subdue their disorders. Psychoanalysis -- disorders develop due to conflicts in early life. Goal is to bring out the repressed feelings of the patient so they can deal with them and not let it harm them. Freud used something called free association -- patient says anything that come to mind uncensored. This free association can reflect upon their childhood memories, dreams, and recent experiences. The analyst usually sits out of the patient"s view so their presence doesn"t affect them. Freud also used something called resistance -- filtering out things from their consciousness that they don"t want to share ex) not sharing embarrassing things, making jokes, changing the subject, etc. Psychodynamic treatment -- still based on freud"s theory, but is more extensive and less expensive. Less focus on psychosexual development childhood experiences. Humanistic perspective -- self fulfillment, self-awareness, self-acceptance.
