PSYC108- insight Flashcards
Cathartic method of talking out problems introduced by…
Freud (1900s)
What did Freud accomplish?
- plotting anatomy of human NS
- developed first anaesthesia
- emphasised unconscious motives behind behaviour
First professor of psychology…
William James (1842-1910)
Free will and consciousness, believed humans are creatures of emotion and action but also thought and reason…
William James
What did the medical model emphasise?
Diagnosis of psychopathology – patients who needed therapeutic help were afflicted with illness and should be treated with medical options
Proposed people with emotional problems are not mentally ill, most people just need a safe environment to work out difficulties…
Carl Rogers (1950s)
Who introduced ‘person-centred’ therapy?
Carl Rogers - focus in 1960s
In the 1970s cognitive and behaviour driven theories began challenging person-centred therapy by who?
Ellis and Beck
What qualities did Rogers emphasise for the counselling relationship?
- congruence
- unconditional positive regard
- empathic understanding
Attempted to make sense of pain and suffering by witnessing Nazi concentration camps (relates to existential counselling)
Victor Frankl (1962)
Rollo May
Introduced existentialism- a way of being that encourages a person to use and accept anxiety constructively
Irvin Yalom emphasises…
Death motivates an intense appreciation of life’s values
Who introduced the psychodynamic theory (late 1800s)?
Sigmund Freud
What did the psychodynamic theory focus on?
Levels of awareness- conscious, preconscious, unconscious
Insight and processing frees up psychic energy by altering repressive investment…
Psychodynamic theory
