PSYC 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 54: Active Listening, Psychoanalysis, Psych
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Psyc 1 textbook notes module 54: introduction to therapy and the psychological. Treating psychological disorders: psychotherapy: treatment involving psychological techniques; interactions between trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties/achieve personal growth, biomedical therapy: prescribed meditations/procedures that act directly on the person"s physiology. Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theories: psychoanalysis: freud"s therapeutic technique; patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, transferences, and the therapist"s interpretation of them released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Techniques: resistance: blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. Interpretation: analyst"s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, other significant behaviors and evens to promote insight: transference: patient"s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships. Psychodynamic therapy: psychodynamic therapy: derived from psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, seeks to enhance self- insight. Humanistic therapies: humanistic perspective emphasizes people"s inherent potential for self-fulfillment. Invite clarification: ask for examples: reflect feelings: sounds frustrating".
