PSYB30H3 Lecture : LECTURE NOTES
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To a certain extent ones life story is predictable given ones traits. Given characteristics we are more likely to craft one story than another. To life story cannot be reduced to ones traits or motivations. The context of the life story is more than that of their characteristics. We can understand much of what goes on in psychotherapy from 3 different frameworks. Most psychotherapists would ascribe to one of the schools of psychotherapy. The practitioners of each of these classes of psychotherapy claim that what they are doing in session differentiates them from other psychotherapists. Talk about the conflicts inherent in their patients. Conflicts btwn id and ego, or ego and superego are all sources of symptoms within the psychodynamic patient. Nature of the psyche to respond to the anxiety with defense mechanisms. When there is a conflict that overwhelms to ego capacity to cope we can deny or repress, etc.
