PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phallic Stage, Latency Stage, Anal Stage
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Themes and issues in the psychodynamic approach to counselling. Aim is for clients to achieve insight and be able to cope with their difficulties. Assumption that client may not be consciously aware of motives or impulses behind actions. Use of interpretation of the transference relationship: transference is when new relationships are tinted by previous relationships/ experiences, e. g. not necessarily based on the new individual"s words or behaviour, but on something in the past. Troubled relationships have their origin in the past. Defence mechanisms serve the purpose of defending the individual from their own. Helpers/ counsellors must be aware of their feelings in relation to the other person. Problems can be understood as unresolved developmental tasks. Many of freud"s patients told him of abuse during childhood years -> freud ascribed these memories to childhood sexual desires (he did not believe that abuse had happened) Stages each come with series of conflicts between child and environment.
