PSYC-1105EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psychological Repression
12 Jun 2018
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PSYC 1105: Introduction to Psychology
Monday March 5 2018
TOPIC:
PSYCHOTHERAPIES
Psychotherapy: Procedures designed to eliminate or modify psychological disorders through the
establishment of a special relationship between a client and a trained therapist.
Psychodynamic Therapies
Based on the assumption that psychological disorders stem primarily from hidden inner conflicts
with repressed urges and impulses.
In psychoanalysis, the patient engages in free association, the therapist notes the patient’s
resistance and transference.
Free association: Individual spontaneously reports all their thoughts to the therapist.
Resistance: Efforts by the patient to present repressed impulses or conflicts from entering
consciousness through the use of defence mechanisms.
Transference:
Humanistic Therapies
Based on the assumption that psychological disorders stem from environmental conditions that
block normal growth and development.
Rejects Freud’s view regarding repressed urges and hidden conflicts.
BIOLOGICALLY BASED THERAPIES
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Document Summary
Psychotherapy: procedures designed to eliminate or modify psychological disorders through the establishment of a special relationship between a client and a trained therapist. Based on the assumption that psychological disorders stem primarily from hidden inner conflicts with repressed urges and impulses. In psychoanalysis, the patient engages in free association, the therapist notes the patient"s resistance and transference. Free association: individual spontaneously reports all their thoughts to the therapist. Resistance: efforts by the patient to present repressed impulses or conflicts from entering consciousness through the use of defence mechanisms. Based on the assumption that psychological disorders stem from environmental conditions that block normal growth and development. Rejects freud"s view regarding repressed urges and hidden conflicts.
