PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Exposure Therapy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Pinel/dix pushed for +humane treatment + mental hospital construcion. Eclecic approach = an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client"s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. Freud believed the paients" free associaions, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist"s interpretaions of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the paient to gain self-insight: 1st of the psychological therapies. Goals: healthier/less anxious lives possible when people release the energy previously devoted to the id-ego-superego conlict, freud: we do not fully know ourselves (+things we don"t want to know, bring paient"s repressed/disowned feelings into conscious awareness. By giving insight to the origins of the disorder, can help growth. Techniques: emphasizes formaive power of childhood experiences + ability to mold the adult (aims to unearth, hypnosis was discarded as unreliable free associaion used, soon you noice how oten you edit your thoughts as you speak. Might pause before utering an embarrassing thought, or forget.