PSYCH 3331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: B. F. Skinner, Psychodynamics, Active Listening

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Psychotherapy - involves a therapist using a range of techniques to help a patient overcome troubles, gain insight, and achieve personal growth. Many ways to treat conditions, some are tailored for certain conditions. Repressed feelings, memories and unconscious thoughts, free association and dream analysis, interpretations, self-insight. Hard to prove helpful, involves many sessions. Psychoanalysis is freud"s thing, psychodynamic therapy stemmed from that. Unconscious internal forces, early relationships, critical childhood experiences. Strays away from id, ego, superego, and sexual themes. Emphasized ppl"s inherent capacity for making rational choices, achieving self-acceptance, and attaining their maximum potential. Therapists provide an empathetic, genuine, accepting environment, using active listening. Anxiety + personal limits are driven by the human tendency to deny the fact that we will all die. Overcome existential fears by maximizing potential + meaning in life, accessing genuine self . Suggests that the problem behavior is the issue. Get rid of unwanted behavior with learning functional behavior.

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