PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16.2: Mental Model, Unconscious Mind, Cognitive Therapy
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In psychological therapy approaches, techniques for resolving problems rely heavily upon communication between the client and therapist. Most psychological therapy works best with a specific type of disorder. It is therefore important to match the clients symptoms to the appropriate therapeutic technique. Insight therapies is a general term referring to therapy that involves dialogue between client and therapist for the purposes of gaining awareness and understanding of psychological problems and conflicts. Psychodynamic therapy is forms of insight therapy that emphasize the need to discover and resolve unconscious conflicts. Freud hypothesized that much of our consciousness occurs at an unconscious level, outside of our conscious awareness. Many fundamental urges, such as sexuality, appetites, and aggression, were thought to be constantly influencing how we think and behave, although we would not be explicitly aware of these processes. Many of these urges are unacceptable, so we actively protect ourselves using psychological defenses.
