Chp 2 Flashcards
Overall goal to achieve balance between superego and id
Working through = exploration of unconscious and defense mechanisms (strengthens the ego)
- bring to the conscious the unconscious
- improve overall functioning and reduce conflict by working through childhood experiences
- create a personality change rather than just behavior change by exploring past experiences
Therapist’s function and role
encourage clients to openly share thoughts, feelings, experiences, and actively listen to fins clues into the unconscious
- therapists use interventions such as free association, questions, and interpretations
- help clients behave in healthier ways to manage anxiety
- dealing effectively with resistance
“Blank-Screen” apporoach
Anonymous stance therapists take on to facilitate transference
Transferrence
clients project onto their therapists the characteristics of another individual, usually a parent, and react to the therapist as though the therapist really does possess those characteristics
Three stages of working through a transference
1) further established and explores to elicit repressed material
2) the original dysfunctional pattern reemerges, now in terms of the transference to the therapist
3) the origins of the transference are understood and resolved, strengthening the ego which helps client relate in healthier ways
Countertransference
the therapists feelings about the client
AVOID in classical psychoanalysis
Therapeutic techniques and procedures (psychoanalysis)
- Free association
- Dream analysis
- Interpretation
- Analysis
- Abreaction
- Dealing with resistance
Free Association (most important rule of psychoanalysis)
Clients say whatever comes to their mind without censoring or judging/used to recall feelings and repressed memories which can led to catharsis
Therapists often listen for underlying meanings of mental processes
1) Discrepancies = observed disagreement between things that are said/done
2) Omissions = things that are not said, done, or felt, but likely should have been said, done, or felt given the situation
3) Excesses = overreactions, overdramatic emotions, or extreme behaviors related to benign events that do not justify such behavior
Analysis and Interpretation (most important TECHNIQUES in PA)
Exploration of repressed material to gain awareness about connection between. past experiences and present difficulties to promote positive change
Psychoanalysis
process of exploring and understanding the unconscious representations in the material people present in counseling
Interpretation
process of elucidating the unconscious meaning of the symbols in material that clients present and of linking those new insights to their present concerns and blocks
- interpretations link the behaviors, thoughts, feelings, within a clients awareness and the clients unconscious (defenses, wishes, past experiences, and/or dreams)
- interpretations can be used through direct observation, indirect presentation, therapeutic relationship, and the therapists perspective
Dream Analysis
Process of exploring the manifest and latent content of dreams to discover clues into the unconscious
- manifest content = actual content of dreams
- latent content = underlying meanings and patterns of dreams
Dealing with Resistance
Resistance: blocking of counseling progress and involves clients ceasing to address, discuss, think about, or accept an interpretation from a therapist
Abreaction
recalling a painful experience that had been repressed and working through that painful experience and it’s associated emotions
- promotes catharsis and emotional/affectional change
