PSYC 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Therapeutic Relationship, Psychoanalysis
30 Apr 2018
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Talk or Action? Psychoanalytic Research
1.) Psychoanalysis has four major areas of application:
a. as a theory of how the mind works
b. as a treatment method for psychic problems
c. as a method of research, and
d. as a way of viewing cultural and social phenomena like literature, art, movies,
performances, politics and groups.
2.) Common factors hypothesis (1936)
a. Client/Extra therapeutic factors (40%)
b. Therapeutic relationship (30%)
c. Placebo/Expectancy/Hope (15%)
d. Treatment theory/Method (15%)
e. The narrative: All behavior is an attempt to communicate.
3.) Rosenthal: Child group therapist must understand the developmental norms and
emotionality of children, understand the dynamic of the uniqueness of individual group
members, and recognize group themes, group and subgroup resistance, and the need for
self-awareness.
4.) Methodology: Action, Action talk (just words, not productive conversation), Talk
5.) Literacy: Importance of language. More than process of just learning to read and write. A
child reads and writes much before he/she formally learns to. Ex. Average welfare child
heads 616 words per hour vs. 1,251 for average working class child
6.) Findings
a. Sessions often start with action. When therapist doesn’t set tone with talk, talk won’t
happen.
b. When therapist doesn’t maintain role as moderator, mode of communication moves to
talk or action
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Document Summary
Common factors hypothesis (1936: client/extra therapeutic factors (40%, therapeutic relationship (30%, placebo/expectancy/hope (15%, treatment theory/method (15%, the narrative: all behavior is an attempt to communicate. Rosenthal: child group therapist must understand the developmental norms and emotionality of children, understand the dynamic of the uniqueness of individual group members, and recognize group themes, group and subgroup resistance, and the need for self-awareness. Methodology: action, action talk (just words, not productive conversation), talk. More than process of just learning to read and write. A child reads and writes much before he/she formally learns to. Average welfare child heads 616 words per hour vs. 1,251 for average working class child.
