Psychoanalytic Approach Flashcards
Therapeutic Goals
- To make the unconscious, conscious
- To strengthen the ego
What are the therapists Function and Role
Blank-screen Approach
Transference
Countertransference
includes:
careful listening
timing when offering interpretations
Define blank-screen approach
The therapist maintains a neutral, non-disclosing role.
Define transference
Client express feelings toward the therapist that appear to be based on the patient’s past feelings about someone else.
Define countertransference
Occurs when there is inappropriate affect, when therapists respond in irrational ways, or when they lose their objectivity in a relationship because their own conflicts are triggered.
What can counter countertransference?
Self-awareness
What the central functions of analysis?
-Fostering personal freedom
-Enhancing Self-awareness
-Improving Relationships
-Managing anxiety and impulsivity
Describe how psychoanalytic counseling works:
-Make use of suggestion, support, empathy, questions, confrontation of resistance, clarification and interpretation.
-Meetings are usually once a week
-more geared to limited objectives than to restructuring one’s personality.
-less likely to use the couch
-more frequent use of supportive interventions (reassurance, expressions of empathy and support, and suggestions)
-focus on pressing practical concerns
SIx Basic Techniques of Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Maintaining Analytic Framework
- Free Association
- Interpretation
- Dream Analysis
- Analysis and Interpretation of Resistance
- Analysis and Interpretation of Transference.
define each off thee six basic techniques of psychoanalytic framework.
(look u na lang sa handout.)
Describe the overview of group counseling.
- Based on early childhood experience through group therapy.
- Attending to repressed sexual and aggressive drives as they affect the individual’s psychological processes in group behavior.
- Offers a unique perspective on the understanding problems.
- Offers understanding about how their past is affecting them now in a group.