chapter 12: psychodynamic psychotherapy

Question 1

sigmond freud

Answer 1

founded psychodynamic therapy

Question 2

what is the primary goal of psychodynamic therapy

Answer 2

make the unconscious conscious

Question 3

what is insight

Answer 3

making someone aware of their thoughts and feelings outside of the conscious

Question 4

how do you access the unconscious

Answer 4

1.free association
2. Freudian slips
3/ dreams
4. resistance
5. defense mechinams
6. transference

Question 5

free association

Answer 5

clients saying whatever comes to mind with our censorship

Question 6

Freudian slip

Answer 6

when you say something that consciously you didn’t mean to say but subconsciously you wanted to say it

Question 7

Dreams

Answer 7

1. manifest content - the plot of the dream that you remember
2. latent content- unconscious thoughts and feelings revealed in the dream

Question 8

Resistance

Answer 8

clients resist certain topics in therapy because they touch on unconscious thoughts and feelings

Question 9

defense mechanisms

Answer 9

unconscious techniques created to attempt to handle some conflict

Question 10

transference

Answer 10

when a client develops a relationship with the therapist in which they expect the therapist to be similar to an important people in the past

Question 11

How well does psychodynamic therapy work

Answer 11

1. it’s very hard to measure
2. very hard to manualize
3. results of large scare revives are positive