Counseling & Helping Relationships Flashcards
Explain Topographic Notion
The mind has depth like an iceberg.
Define Unconscious
Composed of material hidden or unknown to the client.
Define Preconscious
Capable of bringing idea, images, & thoughts into awareness.
Define Conscious
Aware of the immediate environment.
Define Depth Psychology
Related to Freud’s Topographic Hypothesis.
Explain Oedipus Complex
The complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age 4, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex & wish to exclude the parent of the same sex.
Define Transference
When a client displaces emotion felt toward a parent, partner, caregiver, etc. onto the counselor.
Define Countertransference
When the therapist displaces emotion back onto the client.
Define Free Association
Instructing the client to say whatever comes to mind even if it seems silly or embarrassing.
Name the theorists associated with the Analytical Movement
Freud, Jung, & Adler
Define Abreaction
Talking about difficulties in order to purge emotions & feelings is a curative process.
Explain Freud’s thoughts on dreams
Dreams are composed of a surface meaning (manifest content), and then a hidden meaning (latent content).
Define Classical Psychoanalysis
Was quite lengthy (3-5 sessions per week for years)
Define Insight
The attempt to help clients recall repressed memory & make it conscious so it can be dealt with.
Explain Psychodynamic Counseling
- Utilizes fewer sessions per week
- Does not utilize the couch
- Performed face to face
Define Catharsis
The process of releasing, providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.