PSYC 1204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Unconditional Positive Regard, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Dream Interpretation
6 Apr 2016
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Psychological therapies - any technique for improving mental health that doesn"t involve either taking medications or having surgery. Insight therapies - the goal is to resolve psychological problems by nding their root cause. Psychodynamic therapies - the goal is to carefully seek out the unconscious causes of psychological problems, with the assumption that awareness of the cause of those problems will provide the cure. Defence mechanisms - unconscious con icts between the id and superego can generate irrational thinking and behaviours. Free association - clients talk about or write down their thoughts without constraint or censorship. Seeking to understand the nature of unconscious con icts based on the contents of a client"s dreams. Manifest content: is the symbolic way our conscious minds experience our dreams. Latent content: is the deeper meaning of our dreams that re ect unconscious con icts.
