PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Cognitive Therapy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

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A general term referring to therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purpose of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Formal beginning of insight therapy came with the development of psychoanalysis by. Sigmund freud and its evolution into psychodynamic therapies: forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. Freud believed that the process of bringing material from the unconscious into the consciousness allowed clients to gain insight into their problems and the past experiences from which they stem. Today, the approaches are more concerned with the clients conscious rather than unconscious, acknowledge the effect of cultural and interpersonal influences, and much (cid:373)o(cid:396)e opti(cid:373)isti(cid:272) a(cid:271)out people"s a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to (cid:396)ea(cid:272)h health(cid:455) fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. Object relation therapy: a variation of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on how early childhood experiences and emotional attachments influence later psychological functioning fo(cid:272)us i(cid:374) o(cid:374) (cid:862)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h a(cid:396)e the (cid:272)lie(cid:374)ts" (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tatio(cid:374)s of themselves and others.