PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Dream Interpretation, Sexual Conflict, Systematic Desensitization
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A therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Begun by sigmund freud psychodynamic therapies forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. Freud believed in analyzing the unconscious the battle between our urges (sexual, violence) are unacceptable socially leads to psychological issues. Believed that by bringing the material from the unconscious allows clients to acknowledge their problems +past experiences. Freudian-based psychoanalysis practised by very few therapists. Variation of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on how early childhood experiences and emotional attachments influence later psychological functioning focuses on objects mental representation of themselves and others. Early relations between the child and these objects development of a mental model of the child. She will form and maintain relationships as an adult based on her representation of childhood relationships trust, fear, abandonment, etc.
