PSY 1102 Final: Chapter 16

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Modern western therapies can be classi ed into two main categories: psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques, consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological dif culties or achieve personal growth. Ie. eclectic approach: an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy: biomedical therapy: prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology (ie. antidepressants, psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. Psychoanalysis: freud"s therapeutic technique, believed the free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences, and the therapist"s interpretations of them, released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Goals: aimed to bring patient"s repressed feelings into conscious awareness, reducing growth-impeding inner con icts. Free association: say aloud what comes to mind. Resistance: the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Interpretation: the analyst"s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other signi cant behaviours and events in order to promote insight.