22. Psychodynamic Therapies

Question 1

Psychodynamic therapies - Modern ____ developed in the late 19th century out of the work of Sigmund Freud.

Answer 1

psychotherapy

Question 1

The ____ ____ to therapeutic change rests on two principles: the role of insight and the role of the therapist-patient relationship.

Answer 1

psychodynamic approach

Question 2

Refers to the understanding of one’s own psychological process.

Answer 2

Insight

Question 3

According to psychodynamic theory, ____ result primarily from three sources:

Answer 3

symptoms

Question 4

Symptoms - (1) ____ ways of viewing the self and relationships,

Answer 4

maladaptive

Question 5

Symptoms - (2) unconscious ____ and ____ among competing wishes and feelings,

Answer 5

conflicts and compromises

Question 6

Symptoms - and (3) maladaptive ways of dealing with ____ emotions.

Answer 6

unpleasant

Question 7

Therapeutic change requires patients come to understand the ____ ____ of their mind.

Answer 7

internal workings

Question 8

A second principle of psychodynamic treatment is that the ____ between the patient and the therapist is crucial for therapeutic change for three reasons.

Answer 8

relationship

Question 9

Relationship - (1) A patient has to feel comfortable with the therapist in order to speak about emotionally significant experiences, a phenomenon called ____ ____.

Answer 9

therapeutic alliance

Question 10

Relationship - (2) Many psychodynamic therapists argue that being with someone who ____ empathically rather than critically is inherently therapeutic.

Answer 10

listens

Question 11

Relationship - (3) Psychodynamic therapists assume that patients often bring enduring and troubling ____ ____ into the relationship with the therapist, which can then be more readily explored and changed.

Answer 11

interpersonal patterns

Question 12

Therapeutic techniques - (1) Atechnique for exploring associational networks and unconscious processes involved and symptom formation. The therapist instructs patient to say whatever comes to mind – thoughts, feelings, images, fantasies, memories, dreams of the night before or wishes – and to try to sensor nothing.

Answer 12

FREE ASSOCIATION

Question 13

The patient and therapist then ____ to solve the mystery of the symptoms, piecing together the connections and what has been said and noting what has not been said.

Answer 13

collaborate

Question 14

Therapeutic techniques - (2) A central element of psychodynamic technique is the ____ of conflicts, defences, compromise-formations, and repeated interpersonal patterns, whereby the therapist helps the person understand their experiences in a new light.

Answer 14

INTERPRETATION

Question 15

An important kind of interpretation addresses ____, barriers to free association or the treatment more generally, which the patient creates. Resistance emerges because the patient originally developed their symptoms to reduce anxiety; the closer she comes to its source, the more she is motivated to run from it.

Answer 15

RESISTANCE

Question 16

Therapeutic techniques - (3) Refers to the process whereby people experience similar thoughts, feelings, fears, wishes and conflicts in a new relationship as they did in past relationships.

Answer 16

TRANSFERENCE

Question 17

The main contemporary forms of psychodynamic treatment are ____ (in which the patient lies on the couch and meets with the therapist three or more times a week) and ____ ____ (in which the patient and a therapist it face-to-face and usually meet once or twice a week).

Answer 17

psychoanalysis

psychodynamic psychotherapy