PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 54: Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Prescription Drug, Rein

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

Document Summary

Treatment involving psychological techniques, consists of interacions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological diiculies or achieve personal growth. Prescribed medicaions or procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology. Assume that many psychological problems diminish as self-awareness grows. Expect problems to subside as people gain insight into their unresolved and unconscious tensions. Freud believed that the paient"s free associaions, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapist"s interpretaions of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the paient to gain self-insight. People could achieve healthier, less anxious living by releasing the energy that had previously devoted to id-ego-superego conlicts. Aimed to bring paient"s repressed into conscious awareness. Resistance the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Interpretaion the analyst"s noing supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other signiicant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. Therapy deriving from the psychoanalyic tradiion; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.