PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Wideawake, Antidepressant, Seasonal Affective Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Deinstitutionalization: since early 60s antipsychotic medications became widely available, increased discharging from hospitals, hospital stays shorter now, readmission rate is about 50% Sigmund freud"s psychoanalysis was the first of the psychological therapies. Psychotherapy: to treat by psychological means, therapist and clients meet to effect change in clients, change is modification of. Uses many approaches / methods techniques selected for client. Psychoanalysis: freud"s classical therapeutic technique (lengthy, use a variety of methods to identify and examine conflicts and repressed impulses, seeks self-insight as therapeutic for emotional/ behavioral/ relationship problems. Patient verbally reports ongoing stream of thought out of sight of therapist. Resistance: blocks in free association because of anxiety. Interpretation: analyst"s ideas about conflicts, resistances, impulses and dreams: to promote insight. Transference: patients transfer to the analyst of a pattern of interaction from significant past relationship: interactions are acted out and can be analyzed and a new relationship developed.