PSYC 690J3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unconditional Positive Regard, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Brief Psychotherapy

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 690J3
• Professor: Juan Wang

Document Summary

Modifications in psychoanalytic therapy psychodynamics of indiv in the group. One innovation was to apply it to groups of ppl rather than only to indiv. The key issue is whether the group format dilutes the transference to the therapist and thus makes the therapy. Other current analytic therapies include ego analysis, brief psychodynamic therapy and interpersonal ineffective psychodynamic therapy. Ego analysis-------approach is sometimes described as psychodynamic rather than psychoanalytic. They focus more on the persons current living conditions than did freud. Ego analysis belief in a set of ego functions that are primarily conscious, capable of controlling both id instincts and the external environment and that significantly do not depend on the id for their energy. They assume that these egos functions and capabilities are present at borth and develop through experience. Ego functions have energies and gratifications of their own usually separate from id impulses.