PSYC 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Group Psychotherapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Fritz Perls
16 Jan 2017
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Psychodynamic therapies: attempt to uncover repressed childhood experiences that are thought to explain a client"s current difficulties, frued"s psychoanalysis- are still used by some psychodynamic therapists today. Free association: a client is asked to reveal whatever thoughts, feelings or images come to mind, no matter have trivial, embarrassing, or terrible they might seem. Dream analysis is another technique used: emotions are repressed and sometimes expressed in forms of dreams. Object relations therapist represents a somewhat different take on classical psychoanalysis- forge functioning links between self and objects. Humanistic therapies: humanistic therapies assume that people have the ability and freedom to lead rational lives and make rational choices. Humanistic therapies use the word client instead of patient to refer to individuals who are receiving treatment. The goal is to help individuals learn how to better facilitate their own. Gestalt therapy personal growths: developed by fritz perls (1969)
