PSYO 1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sigmund Freud, Psychotherapy, Dream Interpretation

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 1012
• Professor: Jennifer Stamp

Document Summary

Involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients" self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behaviour. Is known as talk therapy in the tradition of freud"s psychoanalysis. Is an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious con icts, motives, and defences through techniques such as free association and transference. He was determined in uncovering unconscious con icts and to reveal di erent sorts of defence mechanisms. In free association, clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feeling exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible. In dream analysis, the therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client"s dreams. Refers to the therapist"s attempts to explain the inner signi cance of the client"s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviours. Refers to largely unconscious defensive manoeuvres intended to hinder the progress of therapy. Occurs when clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives.