PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Les Greenberg, Spontaneous Remission, Unconditional Positive Regard
13
PSY100Y5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
13 documents
Document Summary
Insight therapies involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients" self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behaviour. Freud"s view of the roots of disorders; according to freud, unconscious conflicts among the id, ego and superego sometimes lead to anxiety, which may lead to pathological reliance on defensive behaviour. Psychoanalysis is an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives and defences through techniques, such as free association and transference. Freud treated anxiety-dominated disturbances, such as phobic, panic, obsessive- compulsive and conversion disorders, which were then called neuroses. He thought that inner conflicts involved battles among the id, ego and superego, usually. Freud asserted that defences tend to only be partially successful in alleviating anxiety, over sexual and aggressive impulses guilt and other distressing emotions. The logic of psychoanalysis is that the analyst functions as a psychological detective. The therapist uses and relies on two techniques; free association and dream analysis.
