Approach 1. Psychoanalytic Approach

Question 1

Major Concept of Psychoanalysis

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud stressed the importance of inborn drives (particularly sexual) in determining later personality development

Question 2

Therapeutic Goals of Freudian Psychoanalytic Therapy

Answer 2

• to make the unconscious conscious
• to strengthen the ego

Question 3

Process of Freudian psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 3

there is a deeper probing into the past to develop the level of self-understanding that is assumed to be necessary for a change in character

Question 4

In classical psychoanalysis, analysts typically assume a ____ to foster ___

Answer 4

• blank-screen approach
• transference relationship

Question 5

Blank-Screen Approach

Answer 5

therapist maintains a neutral, non-disclosing role

Question 6

Transference

Answer 6

Clients express feelings toward the therapist that appear to be based on the patient’s past feelings about someone else, particularly a significant person from their upbringing

Question 7

Therapist’s Role in Freudian psychoanalytic therapy

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• careful listening and timing when offering interpretations as it helps uncover unconscious material and aids in client’s understanding

Question 8

Countertransference

Answer 8

phenomenon occurs when there is inappropriate affect, when therapists respond in irrational ways, or when they lose their objectivity in a relationship because their own conflicts are triggered

Question 9

Psychoanalytic Counseling

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• counselors make use of suggestion, support, empathy, questions, and confrontation of resistance, as well as insight-oriented interventions in the form of clarification and interpretation
• Meetings are usually once a week
• therapist is less likely to use the couch
• Focus is more on pressing practical concerns than on working with fantasy material

Question 10

Six Basic Techniques of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Answer 10

• Maintaining Analytic Framework
• Free Association
• Interpretation
• Dream Analysis
• Analysis and Interpretation of Resistance
• Analysis and Interpretation of Transference

Question 11

Maintaining Analytic Framework

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refers to a whole range of procedural and stylistic factors, such as the analyst’s relative anonymity, the regularity and consistency of meetings, and starting and ending the sessions on time

Question 12

Free Association

Answer 12

Clients are encouraged to say whatever comes to mind, regardless of how painful, silly, trivial, illogical, or irrelevant it may be

Question 13

Interpretation

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consists of the analyst’s pointing out, explaining, and even teaching the client the meanings of behavior that is manifested in dreams, free association, resistances, and the therapeutic relationship itself

Question 14

Dream Analysis

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uncovering disguised meanings of symbols in the dream (latent and manifest)

Question 15

Latent Content

Answer 15

hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears

Question 16

Manifest Content

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latent content transformed into more acceptable forms or symbols that appear in the dreams of the dreamer

Question 17

Dream Work

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process of the latent content being transformed into less threatening manifest content

Question 18

Analysis and Interpretation of Resistance

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therapists create a safe space/climate, point out and interpret resistances (or reluctances) so clients can explore it in therapy

Question 19

Analysis and Interpretation of Transference

Answer 19

allows client to achieve here-and-now insight into the influence of the past on their present functioning