Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Psychology, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Psychodynamic therapies *focus on internal conflict & unconscious factors that underlie maladaptive behavior. S/o who experienced death of a family member at a young age might have an exaggerated reaction to a similar loss later in life. In this case, the person is reacting to the current & past loss at the same time (i. e. dealing with the past & present all at once), which explains their seeming over-reaction. Free association: freud believed mental events are meaningfully associated with one another, so that clues to the contents of the unconscious are to be found in the constant stream of thoughts, memories, images & feelings we experience. Things like swords, trains, snakes were all considered clear manifest representations of a penis. Any sort of receptacle including tunnels, cupboards, pots were manifest representations of a. Can figure out what freud would think of the whole story of young arthur pulling out the sword in the vagina.