PSYC 2000 Lecture : PSYCHOLOGY Week 11
Document Summary
Psychological therapies: treatment methods aimed at making people feel. Psychotherapy: the treatment of mental disorder by psychological better and function more effectively rather than medical means (treating mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health provider) Insight therapy: psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings. Psychoanalysis: insight therapy based on the theory of. Manifest content: what actually happened in the dream. Free association: patient is encouraged to talk freely about anything that comes to mind, without fear of negative evaluation. Resistance: patient is reluctant to talk about a certain subject. Transference: tendency for a person to project positive or negative feelings towards important people in the past onto the therapist. Criticisms: no evidence that it"s harmful, but can"t say it"s effective, it is also inconsistent. People who enter psychoanalysis have to be involved for years to see any change.
