PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Unconditional Positive Regard, Tabula Rasa, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 110
• Professor: Roderick Gillis

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Techniques: talking, listening, interpreting, suggesting, reinforcing, demonstrating, role. Who gets psychotherapy? play, medication, journal writing. Hydraulic model: pathology is caused by unresolved conflicts among id, ego, superego. The brain is like a hydraulic system. Hydraulic refers to the behaviour of water under pressure release aggression. Focus on the unconscious mind and early experience (especially sexual development) Patient would lay on a daybed with their back to the therapist. Patient cries and releases a ton of emotions understanding, not just a blank screen as in the past. Therapists encourage self-examination and growth. focus on conscious. Humanistic therapies: thought and focus on the present and future. Real self and ideal self the gap is too big, you are delusional. If you say, well doctor, what should i do? the therapist will say, so you think i should tell you what you should do with your life? . 3 necessary conditions to be this kind of therapist: .