PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Reuptake Inhibitor, Alprazolam, Fluoxetine
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Psychotherapies: use words and acts to overcome psychological di culties. Biological therapies: drugs and physiological interventions such as surgeries. Therapy is a relationship: process of therapy. Relationship between client and psychologist and technique. Psychoanalysis: explores unconscious motivations and con icts. Repression: how you handle con icts, like suppressing at an unconscious level. Monday, november 27, 2017: goals: help patients achieve insight. Release you from your repression: insight: conscious awareness of psychodynamics underlying problems, intensive, prolonged technique. Four techniques/ tools: free association and catharsis, resistance, dream analysis, transference. Technique 1: free association: not regular conversation, uncensored, vernal stream of thoughts, feelings or images, assumed free associations are predetermined not random. Free associations and the analyst: analyst tracj assocations, identi es underlying source. Catharsis: patient encouraged to explore intense and strong feelings, feelings that they have repressed for feat or punishment/retaliation, release called catharsis. Technique 2: resistance: client tries to maintain status quo, resistance. Unwillingness or inability to discuss certain topics.
