Psychology 1000 Chapter 14: Chapter 14

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

The psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factor that underline maladaptive behavior. The goal of psychoanalysis is to help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underline their problems. Free association: freud asked his clients to reline on a couch and to report verbally without censorship any thoughts, feelings, or images that entered awareness. Freud sat out of sight behind the client so that the client"s thought processes would be determined primarily by internal factors. Psychoanalyst believe that dreams express impulses, fantasies, and wished that the client"s defenses keep in the unconscious during waking hours. In dream interpretation, the analyst tried to help the client search for the unconscious material contained in the dreams. Resistance: a defensive maneuver that hinger the process of therapy. Transference: occurs when the client responds irrationally to the analyst as if he or she were an important figure from the clients past.