Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Token Economy, Pastoral Counseling, Dream Interpretation

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

Document Summary

Relationship and techniques of a therapist are important to the success of the treatment. In addition to psychologists and psychiatrists, a number of other professionals provide treatment psychiatric social workers, marriage and family counselors, pastoral counselors, and abuse counselors. Focuses on internal conflict and unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive behaviour. The term psychoanalysis refers not only to freud"s theory of personality, but also to the specific approach to treatment that he developed. The goal of psychoanalysis is to help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underlie their problems. Free association the procedure of verbalizing all thoughts that enter consciousness without censorship. Dream interpretation psychoanalysts believe that dreams express impulses, fantasies, and wishes that the client"s defenses keep in the unconscious during waking hours. Resistance defensive manoeuvres that hinder that process of therapy sign that anxiety-arousing sensitive material is being approached.