PSYC 100B Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Exposure Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Systematic Desensitization

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100B
• Professor: Chim Louise

Document Summary

Psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth. Biomedical therapy: prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology. Eclectic approach: an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy. Freud believed the 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. Freud"s therapy aimed to bring patients" repressed or disowned feelings into conscious awareness. Resistance: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Interpretation: in psychoanalysis, the analyst"s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviours and events in order to promote insight. Transference: in psychoanalysis, the patient"s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).