PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Unconditional Positive Regard, Unconscious Mind, Psychoanalysis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

General term referring to the therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Freud formal beginning of insight therapy psychoanalysis. Forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflict. Methods believed would help access the unconscious mind. Clients are encouraged to talk or write without censoring their thoughts in any way. Occurs as the treatment brings up unconscious material that the client wishes to avoid, and the client engages in strategies for keeping the information out of conscious awareness. Psychoanalytic process whereby clients direct the emotional experiences that they are reliving toward the therapist rather than the original person involved in the experiences. A variation of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on how early childhood experiences and emotional attachments influence later psychological functioning. Contrasting psychoanalytic and humanistic views of major psychological issues and. Behaviour is determined by repressed sexual and aggressive instincts.