Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Antidepressant, Tardive Dyskinesia, Xerostomia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Two general approaches: psychotherapies, emotional cognitive and behaviorally based, somatic therapies, biologically based, early treatments including trephining, blood-letting and purges. Psychoanalysis: goal: help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underlie problems, techniques: Defensive maneuvers by the client that hinder the process of therapy: transference. Positive transference: client transfers feelings of affection, dependency, love to the analyst. Negative transference: expressions of anger, hatred or disappointment: brief psychodynamic therapy: Focuses on insight and interpretation, like regular psychoanalysis. Focus on current life situation, rather than past. Clients seen once or twice a week. Humanistic therapies: focus primarily on the present and future, rather than the past, therapy directed at helping clients to discover true identities and to achieve personal growth, three important therapist attributes: Various intense and unrealistic fears to be evoked in sessions. When this occurs in the presence of an accepting and non- condemning therapist the fear is weakened.