PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2-16.3: Borderline Personality Disorder, Panic Disorder, Cognitive Therapy
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Insight therapies refer to therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Insight therapies came with development of psychoanalysis by sigmund freud and its evolution into psychodynamic therapies, forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. People are not consciously aware of the contents of their unconscious. During the practice of free association, clients are encouraged to talk or write without censoring their thoughts in any way. Freud believed that this would reveal clues to aspects of the unconscious that are not normally expressed. Resistance occurs as the treatment brings up unconscious material that the client wishes to avoid, and the client engages in strategies for keeping the information out of conscious awareness. Psychoanalysts attempt to push through the resistance by making clients aware of how and what they are resisting.
