PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 52: Dorothea Dix, Psychoanalysis, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy: freud"s psychoanalysis was the first of the psychological therapies. Freud believed that patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretation of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Psychodynamic therapy: therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight, doesn"t talk much about id, ego, and superego. Rather than focusing mostly on undoing past hurts and offering interpretations, the therapist concentrates primarily on current relationships and on helping people improve their relationships. What might be an example of that? may encourage the person to say more: reflect feelings. It sounds frustrating might mirror what you"re sensing from the person"s body language and intensity. Commonly used to treat phobias: the goal is substituting a positive response for a negative response to a harmless stimulus, joseph wolpe assumed that you cannot be simultaneously anxious and relaxed.