PSYC-233 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.2 and humanism: Existential Therapy, Connel, Dasein
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4 techniques to assess unconscious processes using ambiguous stimuli; no obvious response-project thoughts/feelings. Assoiciative techniques: first word that comes to mind. Completion techniques: complete a thought usi(cid:374)g a(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete sti(cid:373)ulus (cid:894)(cid:862)i (cid:449)ish(cid:863)(cid:895) Rorschach inkblots: compared with responses of certain personalities, along with progression of responses. Freud became less optimistic about the value of psychoanalytic therapy overtime. Depends on defining success in therapy (insight, distress, etc. ) Still better than no therapy (act of talking) Client must have catharsis and an understanding of repression inhibiting functioning. Defense mechanisms are normal, but too many is a sign of trouble. Freud believed people often became fixated in one stage of childhood which prevents flexible adult functioning. Problems can also be caused by the suppression of urges and needs (ie overly punitive superego); drains energy. Traumatic incidents: focused on early childhood, freud thought many of his patients had been sexually abused by the parents (seduction theory) but later described the oedipal complex; cause of repression.
