PSYC 1215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Aversion Therapy, Exposure Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy
30 Jul 2016
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Each is built on one or more of psychology"s major theories: psychodynamic. >aim to boost self-fulfillment by helping people grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance behavioral. >expect problems to subside as people gain insight into their unresolved and unconscious tensions. cognitive. >assume that our thinking colors our feelings psychoanalysis: (1) sigmund freud"s theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; (2) freud"s therapeutic technique used in treating psychological disorders. Freud believed that the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretations of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Psychoanalytic theory presumes that healthier, less anxious living becomes possible when people release the energy they had previously devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts. Freud"s therapy aimed to bring patients" repressed or disowned feelings into conscious awareness. >emphasizes the formative power of childhood experiences and their ability to mold the adult. Ex: imagine yourself as a patient using free association.
