PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Cognitive Restructuring, Family Therapy, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Form of insight therapy that emphasize need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. True causes of our behavior and psychological issues lie in the unconscious. Bringing material from the unconscious to the conscious allowed clients to gain insight into their problems and the past experiences from which the problems stem. Ways of accessing the unconscious: free association. Clients are encouraged to talk or write without censoring their thoughts in any way. This uncensored thought barrage would reveal clues to aspects of the unconscious that (cid:272)lie(cid:374)ts (cid:374)or(cid:373)all(cid:455) (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t allo(cid:449) to (cid:271)e e(cid:454)pressed: dream analysis. Examines details of what happens during a dream to gain insight of true meaning of the dream: resistance. Occurs as treatment brings up unconscious material that the client wishes to avoid and the client engages in strategies for keeping info out of the conscious awareness.
