PSYC 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Exposure Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Behaviour Therapy
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Psychotherapy - a trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome dif culties or achieve personal growth. Biomedical therapy - offers medications and other biological treatments. Eclectic approach - an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy. Psychoanalysis - freud"s technique: free associations, dreams and transferences (therapists interpretations of these) released previously repressed feelings, allowing patient to gain self insight. Releasing energy that had previously been devoted to id-ego-superego con icts. Bring repressed or disowned feels into conscious awareness. Power of childhood experiences to mould adult. Free association, you releasing you omit trivial, irrelevant or shameful things. Mental blocks show resistance: the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Hints that anxiety lurks and you"re defending your self. Analyst notes resistance and offers interpretation to illuminate underlying wished,feelings and con icts you are avoiding.
