PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 54: Systematic Desensitization, Exposure Therapy, Family Therapy

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psychotherapy: treatment with a trained therapist using psychological techniques. Biomedical therapy: medication or procedures that act directly on person"s physiology. Eclectic approach: a psychotherapy approach that uses various forms of therapy. Psychoanalysis: sigmund freud"s technique using free association, resistances, dreams & transferences to bring patients" repressed feelings into conscious awareness and giving them insight into the origins of their disorders. Resistance: during free association, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden or impure material. Interpretation: noting of dreams, resistances, or other signi cant behaviors in order to promote insight. Transference: strong positive/negative feelings for the analyst that are being transferred from earlier relationships with family members or other important people. Psychodynamic therapy: derived from psychoanalysis, views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight. Insight therapies: therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person"s awareness of underlying motives & defences. (humanistic & psychoanalytic) Taking immediate responsibility for one"s feelings and actions.