Psychoanalytic Therapy

Question 1

therapeutic goals of psychoanalytic treatment

Answer 1

increase adaptive functioning

Question 2

2 goals of freudian psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 2

• make the unconscious conscious
• strengthen the ego (so that, behavior is based more on reality and less on instinctual cravings or irrational guilt)

Question 3

oriented toward achieving insight

Answer 3

psychoanalytic treatment

Question 4

therapeutic techniques of psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 4

• blank-screen approach
• transference relationship

Question 5

approach where the counselor assumes an anonymous non-judgmental stance

Answer 5

blank-screen approach

Question 6

blank screen approach avoids ____ and maintain a sense of ____ to foster a transference relationship

Answer 6

• self-disclosure
• neutrality

Question 7

the client’s unconscious shifting to the therapist of feelings, attitudes, and fantasies that are reactions to significant others in the client’s past

Answer 7

transference relationship

Question 8

transference is the ____ of psychoanalysis

Answer 8

cornerstone

Question 9

consists of a therapist’s unconscious emotional responses to a client based on the therapist’s own past

Answer 9

countertransference

Question 10

in a countertransference relationship, the the therapist _______ or ______

Answer 10

• respond in irrational ways
• lose their objectivity in a relationship

Question 11

functions of psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 11

• help clients acquire the freedom to love, work, and play
• assist clients in achieving self-awareness, honesty, and more effective personal relationships
• assist in dealing with anxiety in a realistic way
• assist in gaining control over impulsive and irrational behavior
• establish therapeutic alliance with the client

Question 12

6 basic techniques of psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 12

• maintaining the analytic framework
• free association
• interpretation
• dream analysis
• analysis and interpretation of resistance
• analysis and interpretation of transference

Question 13

anything that works against the progress of therapy

Answer 13

resistance

Question 14

resistance is the client’s ____ to bring to the surface of awareness unconscious material that has been repressed

Answer 14

reluctance

Question 15

important procedure for uncovering unconscious material and giving the client insight into some areas of unresolved problems

Answer 15

dream analysis

Question 16

dream analysis are the ___ to the ____

Answer 16

• royal road
• unconscious

Question 17

2 levels of dream content

Answer 17

• manifest
• latent

Question 18

distorted contents of painful and threatening experiences or memories transformed by unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses into more acceptable content

Answer 18

manifest content

Question 19

consists of hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears

Answer 19

latent

Question 20

process by which the latent content of a dream is transformed into the less threatening manifest content

Answer 20

dream work

Question 21

route to elucidating the client’s intrapsychic life

Answer 21

interpreting transference

Question 22

central technique in psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 22

free association

Question 23

consists of the analyst’s pointing out, explaining, and even teaching the client the meanings of behavior

Answer 23

interpretation