PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Operant Conditioning, Random Assignment, Unconditional Positive Regard
20 Apr 2018
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Psychoanalytic techniques help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underlie their problems. Such awareness permits clients to adjust their behaviour to their current life situations, rather than continuing to repeat the old maladaptive routines learned in childhood. Transference: the psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a client responds irrationally to the analyst as if the latter were an important person from the client"s past who plays an important role in the client"s dynamics. Positive transference occurs when a client transfers feelings of intense affection, dependency, or love to the analyst. Negative transference involves irrational expressions of anger, hatred, or disappointment. Humanistic theorists view humans as capable of consciously controlling their actions and taking responsibility for their choices and behaviour. These theorists also believe that everyone possesses inner resources for self-healing and personal growth, and that disordered behaviour re ects a blocking of the natural growth process.
