PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Tonsillectomy
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Psychotherapy: aimed to calculate underlying causes for behavior. Psychodynamic (psychoanalysis): therapist acts as an interpreter, major tool used is hypnoses, free association and projective test. Goal is to help the client receive insight. D. t. , a young man with a depressive character disorder, tended to be quite defensive in his sessions. For several hours he had been ruminating about his job and about various reality-based arguments with his mother. His girlfriend had lost her job and, in one session, he raged against her boss in the following session, he reported having watched a medical television show that had reminded him of his tonsillectomy He had seen his parents afterwards and raged against them for various ways in which they were hypocritical regarding money and religion It was near the end of the session that he reported for the rst time in his treatment that he had a penile discharge and was worried that he had a venereal disease.
