PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, Exposure Therapy
17 Apr 2016
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Psychotherapy a psychological intervention designed to help people resolve emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of their lives. Paraprofessional person with no professional training who provides mental health services. Most people who seek therapy do so two years or more after they first notice problems. A moderate degree of anxiety in patients is a predictor of improvement in therapy. Insight therapies psychotherapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic-existential approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight. Interpretation (therapists form explanations of the unconscious dreams and emotions) Dream analysis with symbols (dreams express unconscious themes that influence conscious life) Resistance (avoid further confrontation while discovering repressed thoughts) Transference (projecting intense feelings from the past onto the therapist) Working through (resolve conflicts and ineffective coping methods in daily life) According to jung, the goal of psychotherapy is individuation. Dream analysis focuses on dream material itself and series of dreams as themes. Prognostic dreams foretell the future and warn of danger.
