Lecture 10 Flashcards
Psychodynamic approach
Influenced by Freud
Attachment figures
Early caregivers
Insight
Motivation
Unconscious conflict
Internal questions
Relationships
Emphasis on psychodynamic
Strong influence on relationship between therapist and client
Draw from attachment theory
Unconscious approaches
Inside out model
Families internal phantasy and how this impacts on external relationships
Outside in model
Considers how families relate to each other and how this impacts their thoughts and awareness.
Object relations family therapy
Developed by David and Jill Scharff
Focus on the human motivation to relationships
Concepts
Listening for unconscious and conscious patterns
People are object seeking
People seek to connect in mutually caring relationships
Problems are a result of misfit between reality and assumptions
Process
Transference - counter transference - projective identification
Internal experiences need to be understood
Develop sense of meaning and shared experience
Approach
Work together to create understanding of why they are hurting and why they stuck
Therapist joins family to share experience of patterns and representations
Safe Space