PSYC 1215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Prescription Drug, The Techniques, Ethology
9 Jan 2019
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Psychotherapy: a therapist uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome difficulties or achieve personal growth. Should include: a client, a licensed therapist, a special relationship b/w both. A way to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. Gives the client insight to how the disorders started. Therapist can help reduce their growth-impeding inner conflicts. Interpretation: using dream meaning, resistances, etc. to promote insight. Exposing the repressed feelings may give insight into current relationships. Psychodynamic: focus on the unconscious and importance of childhood experiences. Help identify recurring themes, conflicts, and defense mechanisms in relationships to resolve current problems at home or work. Meetings are once or twice a week, for a few weeks or months. Help people gain self-awareness and self-acceptance, while taking responsibility for their own actions and feelings. Insight therapies: aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person"s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
