PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Countertransference, Psychodynamics
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Goal of treatment: help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Process of therapy: relationship between client and psychologist and technique. Underlying assumption: tension between unconscious impulses and the current constricting. Psychoanalysis: explore unconscious motivations and conflicts. Conflicts between the unconscious/ irrational impulses (id) and the superego. How: awareness of id, reduces some compliance with superego, strength to the ego. Goal: help patients achieve insight, release you from your repression. Insight - conscious awareness of psychodynamics underlying problems. 4 techniques/ tools: free association and catharsis, resistance, dream analysis, transference and countertransference. Not regular conversation: uncensored, verbal stream of thoughts, feelings or images, assumed free association are predetermined not random. Free association and the analyst: analyst tracks association, identifies underlying source. Catharsis: patients encouraged to explore intense and strong feelings, feelings that they have repressed for fear of punishment/retaliation, release called catharsis, resistance. Enables patients to face painful ideas, desires, and experiences: resistance.
