Methods of Psychotherapy

Question 1

Who can it be argued invented psychotherapy?

Answer 1

Sigmund Freud

Question 2

What is dynamic psychotherapy?

Answer 2

Dynamic psychotherapy, also known as insight-oriented therapy, focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person’s present behavior. The goals of psychodynamic therapy are a client’s self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior. In its brief form, a psychodynamic approach enables the client to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest themselves in the need and desire to abuse substances.

Question 3

What is the preconscious level?

Answer 3

Preconscious are the thoughts which are unconscious at the particular moment in question, but which are not repressed and are therefore available for recall and easily ‘capable of becoming conscious’—a phrase attributed by Sigmund Freud to Joseph Breuer.

Question 4

What is the unconscious level?

Answer 4

The part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior.

Question 5

What are the goals of psychoanalysis?

Answer 5

1. Intellectual and emotional insight into the underlying causes of the client’s problems.
2. Working through or fully exploring the implications of those insights.
3. Strengthening the ego’s control over the id and superego.

Question 6

What was a criticism of psychoanalysis?

Answer 6

With the case of Anna O, it was found that her medical records showed that she had many problems still after being thought to be cured.

Question 7

What were some non-hypnotic methods in psychoanalysis?

Answer 7

Free association, dream interpretation, faulty action (Freudian slip), analysis of resistance, analysis of transference, and analytic interpretations.

Question 8

What is Corrective Emotional Experience?

Answer 8

A technique in which the analyst purposely behaves in the transference in a corrective manner towards the patient. Emphasizes the emotional relationship rather than intellectual insight as the main curative factor.

Question 9

What is the first type of therapeutic alliance?

Answer 9

Perceived helpfulness of the patient.

Question 10

What is the second type of therapeutic alliance?

Answer 10

Collaboration or bonding with the therapist.

Question 11

How does psychodynamic therapy compare to psychoanalysis?

Answer 11

In psychodynamic therapy, therapists are more active (not blank screens), it is more focused on current relationships, and it is more time limited.