Psychoanalytic Therapy Questions Flashcards
Ego psychology theorists view therapy in terms of assisting clients in gaining awareness of their defenses and helping them develop better ways of coping with these defenses.
True
The analyst listens in a respectful, open-minded way and pays attention to both what is spoken and to what is unspoken.
True
Ruled by the pleasure principle—which is aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure—the ego is illogical, amoral, and driven to satisfy instinctual needs.
False
Jung’s analytical psychology is an elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion.
True
Transference is central to understanding psychodynamic therapy, whereas counter-transference is not.
False
Psychoanalytically-oriented therapy can be made appropriate for culturally diverse populations if techniques are modified to fit the settings in which a therapist practices.
True
Countertransference is rarely associated with a range of emotionally charged responses such as withdrawal, anger, love, annoyance, powerlessness, avoidance, overidentification, control, and sadness.
False
Ego psychology is not part of classical psychoanalysis with the emphasis placed on the vocabulary of id, ego, and superego.
False
In classical psychoanalysis, analysts typically avoid engaging in self-disclosure and assume a non-judgmental stance.
True
The therapist’s countertransference reactions are abnormal because all therapists should have resolved all conflicts and personal vulnerabilities that could be activated through their professional work while in school.
False
A primary aim of psychodynamic approaches is:
fostering of clients’ capacities to solve their own problems.
The ‘working through’ process allows clients to complete all of the following except:
repeat and explore conscious events of the past that are pleasant.
A key outcome of our own therapy is:
humility.
Analytic therapy focuses on __________ that are happening in the moment in the therapy sessions.
feelings, perceptions, and action
Current findings of interpersonal neurobiology lend strong support for the psychoanalytic relationship as having a lasting treatment effect with clients who have suffered with histories of:
interpersonal trauma and neglect.
Personal therapy and clinical supervision for therapists can be most helpful in better understanding how their internal reactions influence the therapy process and:
how to use these countertransference reactions to benefit the work of therapy.
Psychodynamic therapists know the importance of:
when and how to make interpretations; tact and timing are essential for effective interpretations.
__________ is an important procedure for uncovering unconscious material and giving the client insight into some areas of unresolved problems.
Dream Analysis
__________ is the dream as it appears to the dreamer.
Manifest Content
__________ is anything that works against the progress of therapy and prevents the client from producing previously unconscious material.
Resistance
Psychodynamic therapists remain alert to all of the following except:
Explore the clients past only.
The process by which the latent content of a dream is transformed into the less threatening manifest content is called:
Dream Work
The therapeutic relationship is central to all of the following except:
exploration on the part of the therapist.
__________ consists of hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears.
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