Psychoanalytic therapy

Question 1

Goals of psychoanalytic therapy:

Answer 1

• Psychological functioning exits in the out-of-awareness realm & repressed material interfere with healthy functioning
• Make the unconscious motives into conscious
• Allow the individual go back to past to develop level
  of self-understanding including intellectual & feelings
• Achieve insight to understand the causes of neurotic symptoms & behaviours and make choices to change

Question 2

Freudian Theory emphasizes on: (2 points)

Answer 2

• First year of life help shape adult personality
• Feeding, toilet training & sexual experiences as critical events in personality formation

Question 3

Psychoanalysis:

Answer 3

through knowing people’s subconscious minds to understand their behavior

e.g.
* 催眠 (hypnosis)
* 分析夢境 (Dream Analysis) (may have impedance)
* 自由聯想 (Free association)
* 口風(slips of tongue)，
* 笑話(jokes)，
* 怪異動作(nonverbal mannerism)