Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dream Interpretation, Psychodynamics, Limbic System

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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> psychodynamic therapies: the psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive behaviour. Transference: when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if. Brings out the repressed feelings that the therapist can point out to the. Positive transference: when the client transfers feelings of intense o client o affection, dependency or love to the analyst o disappointment o recovery. Negative transference: involves irrational expressions of anger, hatred or. Until transference reactions are analyzed/resolved there can be no full with insight into his or her behaviour or dynamics. Interpretation: any statement by the therapist intended to provide the client o. General rule in psychoanalytic treatment is to interpret what is already near the surface and just beyond the client"s current awareness deep analysis will not be understood or helpful to the patient o. It is the patient who must ultimately arrive at the insight.