PSY100H1 Lecture 10: Lecture 10- Apr 2.rtf
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Psychotherapy intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal. Patients with anxiety are more motivated to get help, so their prognosis is good. People who are better adjusted to begin with. Choice of therapist tends to be more important than choice of therapy. Insight therapy goal of expanding awareness/insight includes psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapies. Freud"s psychoanalysis was the first form of psychotherapy unconscious feelings cause abnormal behaviour--> goal of therapy is to make the unconscious conscious. Six approaches: free association: patients just report whatever memories/feelings come to mind recollections unstem from unconscious desires of the id, dream analysis: Freud believed in manifest and latent content of dreams: interpretation: formulate explanations from the free associations and dream analysis. Interpersonal therapy short-term treatment that strengthens social skills and targets impersonal problems, conflicts and life transitions. Genuineness: consistency between therapist"s feelings and actions relationship is based on openness and honesty. because you have this relationship you can learn to be congruent.
