Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Waking Hours, Psychotherapy Research, Psychodynamics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- Dehoog

Document Summary

Psychodynamic therapies: focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive behaviour. Psychoanalysis: the goal of psychoanalysis is to help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underlie their problems, such awareness permits clients to adjust their behaviour to their current life situations. Free association: free association verbally report any thoughts, feeling, or images that entered awareness without censorship. It will provide clues concerning important themes or issues. Dream interpretation: psychoanalysts believe that dreams express impulses, fantasies, and wishes that the (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s defe(cid:374)(cid:272)es keep i(cid:374) the u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious du(cid:396)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)aki(cid:374)g hou(cid:396)s. In dream interpretation, the analyst tries to help the client search for the unconscious material contained in the dreams (what the symbols in the dream really represent) Interpersonal therapy has proven to be one of the more effective current therapies for depression and for somatic system disorder.