Psycho Theraphy Flashcards
Usually long term, 3-5 years
Psychoanalysis
Has several session to months or years
Expressive mode of psychoanalysis
What are indications for psychoanalysis
Significant suffering
Genuine wish to understand themselves
Able to withstand frustration
Honest, average
Psychologically minded
Patients attempt to comply with the fundamental rule by saying whatever comes to mind
Free association
Referred to as an evenly suspended attention
Free floating attention
Refers to the displacement of attitudes and feelings originally experienced in relationships with people from the past onto the analyst
Transference
It is neither previously understood by nor meaningful to the patients
Interpretation
Feelings that are thought to be related to what the patient is projecting onto the analyst
Counterference
Goal is to achieve a realistic cure or amelioration of symptoms
Therapeutic alliance
Unconscious ideas that are repressed and prevented from reaching awareness
Resistance
Opportunity to display behavior different from the destructive behavior of parents
Corrective emotional experience
Explanatory statement that links a feeling, thought, behavior or symptom to its unconscious meaning or origin
Interpretation
Aimed at helping the patient articulate something that is difficult to put into words
clarification
Addresses something the px does not want to accept
Confrontation
Px capacity to consider problems in emotional terms
Brief focal psychotheraphy
Determining px’s central conflict
Time limited psychotherapy
Focused on changing a person’s distorted thinking and usually last 25 weeks
Cognitive theraphy
Explaining to patient’s the cognitive triad, schemas and faulty logic
Didatic aspects
Eliciting automatic thoughts
Testing automatic thoughts
Identifying maladaptive underlying assumption
Testing the validity of maladaptive assumptions
Cognitive techniques
Noxious stimulus is presented immediately after a specific behavioral response
Aversion therapy
Measures the electrical potentials of muscle fibers
Electromyogram
Measures alpha waves that occur in relaxed states
Electroencephalogram
Shows decreased skin conductivity during a relaxed state
Galvanic skin response
