PS381 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Systematic Desensitization, Rollo May, Thematic Apperception Test
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Psychotherapy: a developmental, interpersonal situation that consists of a relationship b/w sufferer & healer. Developmental phenomenon b/c it precedes w/ history of a beginning, middle & an end. Interpersonal b/c involves at least 2 parties (the client & the therapist) Goal: to relieve problems by altering how the sufferer feels, thinks & acts. Can occur in a dyad, w/n a group, or w/ a family or couple. Healer has specialized training & draws on theoretical concepts to apply certain helping techniques. 3 psychological ways in which relief of suffering occurs: how we feel, how we think, how we act. * family therapists employ a very different orientation to couples & families than any of the above models, although family therapies have been influenced by these individual-centred models. Affect refers to emotions associated w/ particular motives; unconscious motives. Behaviour changing behaviour in the way of which those who integrate psychodynamic theory w/ action would do it)
