PSYC 2300H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Aversion Therapy, Freaked
4 Apr 2016
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Efeciveness vs. eicacy: recogniion vs. making a diference. Gaining psychological insight: lessen energy devoted to unsuccessful defenses. Decrease the role of unconsciousness in day-to-day life: encourages sublimaion (make it beter! Free associaion is vocalizing everything: the couch, lit censors on thought & uterances, meaningful unconscious material will reveal itself, oten in disguised form, ask quesions take notes. Analysis of dreams taps into the symbolism of the subconscious: during sleep, defenses are lowered. In 1900"s book there are four levels: dreams are fulillment of a wish, dreams are disguised fulillment. Yeung says you"re looking at the unconscious collecive of man kind: disguised fulillment of a repressed wish. Repression creates symptoms: is a disguised fulillment of a repressed, infanile wish. Ego defenses are acivated by the threat of meaningful unconscious material coming to consciousness. Resistance is useful: to remove roadblocks to insight, as indirect sign the therapist is on the right track. Yeah i don"t wanna talk today, ok: false insight.
