Psychology 1000 Chapter 17: Chapter 17 - Psychological Treatments

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Leslie Janes

Document Summary

The goal of psychoanalysis is to gain insight -- bringing unconscious conflicts to consciousness. This therapy can release psychic energy devoted to keeping conflict repressed. Free association: expressing thoughts and feelings without censorship. Ex: sit behind client and tell them to say anything. Manifest (story the dreamer reports) vs latent content (the disguised, underlying meaning) Resistance: nearing repressed conflict - defense mechanism against therapy, resistance is a sign of a sensitive topic. Ex: patient gets angry, avoids topic, misses appointments. Transference: psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a client responds irrationally to the analyst as if he were an important person from the client"s past who plays an important role in client"s dynamics. Ex: when client"s feelings about therapist are same as toward parent. Purpose is to provide client with insight into their behaviour. Interpretation should be near the surface as opposed to deep interpretation which are bad because they are not informative. Weakness: client must eventually arrive at the insight themselves.