PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamics, Countertransference
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Goals and sources of help: goal of treatment, help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings, behaviours. Resources for therapy: psychologists, psychiatrists, psychological associates, counsellors, social workers, therapists. Therapy is a relationship: process of therapy, relationship between client and psychologist and technique. Psychodynamic therapies: underlying assumption: tension between unconscious impulses and the current constraints of life, freud"s therapy: psychoanalysis, explore unconscious motivations and con icts. Freud"s psychoanalysis: con icts between- unconscious/irrational impulses (id) versus harsh social constraints of super ego, goal: create a level of harmony in the system, make you aware of the id, reduce some compliance with superego. Free associations and the analyst: analyst tracks associations, identi es apparent underlying source. Catharsis: patient encouraged to explore intense and string feelings, feelings that they have repressed for fear of punishment/ retaliation, release called catharsis, resistance. #2: therapist expects client to try and maintain status quo.
