Chapter 17 - Flashcards
What are insight therapies?
To get to the root of the problem, a type of therapy that allows people to understand how their past behaviour may impact their current behaviours and lives now.
What are symptom-oriented therapies?
Therapies which focus on the resolutions for certain symptoms rather than diagnosing the disorder as a whole, as there has been disagreement on which symptoms make up a disorder.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
A type of therapy that allows people to understand their unconscious thoughts and feelings, even past experiences to address current mental concerns.
What is symptom substitution?
One of Freud’s symptom-oriented therapies. He believed that dealing with a single symptom instead of the unconscious conflict will only result in a new symptom.
What did Freud use to allow people to understand their unconscious?
Hypnosis
Self explanatory.
Free Association
To let your mind wander, and to talk freely in front of an analyst. The analyst will attempt to uncover patterns within free verbal speech.
Dream Analysis
Freud thought dreams had two contents. Manifest and latent content.
What is manifest and latent content?
The manifest content: What literally happens in the dream. Situation by situation.
The latent conflict: The hidden symbolic meaning behind the manifest content. Repressed desires, conflict, emotions.
What is resistance in psychoanalysis?
Resistance is displayed when a patient may not want to speak about some thing. That is viewed as evidence of repression.
What is transference in psychoanalysis?
Where the patient has an emotional attitude towards someone in their life, and they will instead project that attitude onto the analyst.
What are humanistic therapies?
Carl Rogers called his “person/client centered therapy). Meaning instead of calling his patients “patients”, he would call them persons or clients. His therapies were more discussions. It is non-directive, the therapist is not telling you what will happen or how to proceed.
What is unconditional positive regard?
To treat someone well without condition. To accept and treat someone well no matter what they do.
What is empathy and reflective listening?
These are two components of humanistic therapies. Reflective listening is to repeat back what they say in their own words, to understand how the client feels. This is a way to show empathy, to understand another.
What is genuineness?
The therapist will be 100% honest and transparent with how they feel, but in a way that won’t interfere with their unconditional positive regard.
What is gestalt therapy?
To guide someone and allow them to put their thoughts and experiences into patterns.
What is existential therapy (logotherapy)?
A type of existential therapy developed by Victor Frankl that explains the primary motivational force in life is to find meaning in life.
