PSYC 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Prescription Drug, Behaviour Therapy, Operant Conditioning
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Psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. Biomedical therapy: prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology. Eclectic approach: an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client"s problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. Freud believed the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Resistance: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Interpretation: in psychoanalysis, the analyst"s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. Transference: in psychoanalysis, the patient"s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). Psychodynamic therapy: therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.
