Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Waking Hours, Psychodynamics
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Psychodynamic therapies
▪ Focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive
behaviour
▪ The term psychoanalysis refers to Freud’s theory of personality, but also to the
specific approach to treatment that he developed
Psychoanalysis
▪ Goal of psychoanalysis is to help client achieve insight awareness of the
psychodynamics that underlie their problems
▪ Permits clients to adjust their behaviour to their current life situations
▪ As the client repeatedly encounters and deals with buried emotions, motives, and
conflicts both within and outside of therapy
▪ Psychic energy that was previously devoted to keeping the unconscious conflict
under control can be released and redirected to more adaptive ways of thinking
Free Association
▪ Free association…recline clients on a couch and they report verbally uncensored
any thoughts, feelings, or images that entered awareness
▪ Thought processes determined by internal factors
▪ Provide clues concerning important themes or issues
Dream Interpretation
▪ Believe that dreams express impulses, fantasies, and wishes that the client’s
defences keep in the unconscious during waking hours
▪ Defensive processes usually disguise the threatening material to protect the
dreamer from the anxiety that that the material might evoke
Resistance
▪ Avoidance patterns emerge in the course of therapy as resistance defensive
manoeuvres that hinder the process of therapy
▪ Resistance is a sign that anxiety-arousing sensitive material is being approached
▪ Important task of analysis is to explore the reasons for resistance
Transference
▪ Transference…occurs when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if he
or she were an important figure from the clients past
▪ Most important process in psychoanalysis brings out into the open repressed
feelings and maladaptive behaviour patterns that the therapist can point out to the
client
▪ Transference takes on two basic forms
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Psychodynamic therapies behaviour: focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive, the term psychoanalysis refers to freud"s theory of personality, but also to the specific approach to treatment that he developed. Dream interpretation dreamer from the anxiety that that the material might evoke. Resistance: avoidance patterns emerge in the course of therapy as resistance defensive manoeuvres that hinder the process of therapy, resistance is a sign that anxiety-arousing sensitive material is being approached. Important task of analysis is to explore the reasons for resistance. Interpretation: how can analysts help clients detect and understand resistance, the meaning of dream symbols, and transference reactions? presents insight into this or her behaviour or dynamics, analysts chief therapeutic technique is interpretation of the material the client. Interpretations any statement by the therapist intended to provide the client with client"s current awareness: general rule is to interpret what is already near the surface and just beyond the.
