Psychodynamic approaches 3 Flashcards
2 attitude types
Extra version and introversion
4 functions
Thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition
Everyone has 2 functions but 2 are well developed while other 2 remain mostly…
Unconscious in the shadow
Extroversion
External objects, open, sociable, quarrelsome
Introversion
Inner world, reflective, hesitant, reserved
Thinking types
Decisions with head, truth over tact, seen as task oriented and insensitive at times
Feeling types
Decisions with heart, tact over truth, can be seen as idealistic
Function of senses
Solve problems by working through facts until I understand the problem, pragmatic, start with facts to form bigger picture
Hunches and insight
Solve problems by leaping between different ideas, interested in doing things that are to and different, like to see big picture then to find out the facts
There are __ possible combinations
8
Jungian therapy
Not consistent with medical model and sees the whole person and we encounter our own natures and discover nothing new and unknown in the mentally ill
Hysteria and schizophrenia
Extreme persistent expressions of two basic attitudes
Hysteria
Extreme extraversion, libido withdrawn from outer world, over concern with influences in social relationships
Schizophrenia
Extreme introversion, libido withdrawn from reality, world of fantasy and archetypes (living in unconscious)
Jungian therapy view of mental health
Balance or imbalance between needs of the individual and demands of collective
Jungian therapy view of neuroses
Homeostatic imbalance between conscious and unconscious
Symptoms are a form of adaptation created as part of
Individuation
Freudian view of neuroses
Early childhood, backward-looking, reductive
Jung believed that neuroses can develop ___ and are ____ looking and ____
Any stage in life cycle; forward; adaptive
Jungian goals of therapy
Attain specific goals, deal with complexes, strengthen consciousness, understand own inner being and meaning of lives
Jungian therapeutic process
Individual, eye to eye, 2/3 sessions/wk, break after ten weeks
Jungian therapeutic stage 1
Confession-share secrets
Therapeutic process stage 2
Elucidation- therapist interprets
Therapeutic stage 3
Education- new and adaptive habits
Therapeutic stage 4
Transformation- Individuation, acceptance of self
Therapeutic techniques
Analysis of transference, active imagination, dream analysis
Analysis of transference
Understand projections that take place from client to therapist
Active imagination
Get in touch with unconscious material, may use dreams as a starting point, allow unconscious to produce series of images, the art of letting things happen, interprets unconscious and conscious
To Freud, dreams ___, but for Jung, dreams ___
Disguise, express
For Freud, meaning of dream in ___ content, for Jung, meaning of dream in ____ content
Latent; manifest
For Freud, meaning of dream in __ context, for Freud meaning in dream in ___ context
Latent; manifest
For Freud, dreams function as ____ and for Jung dreams function as ___
Wish fulfillment; compensatory
Freud has a ____ approach whole Jung has a ____ approach
Reductive, constructive
Freud has a ___ approach while Jung has a ___ approach
Reductive; constructive
Steps of Jungian dream analysis
Amplification, interpretation, assimilation
Amplification
Elaboration and clarification of dream images to establish context
Interpretation
Keep record of dreams and interpretations
Assimilation
Client and therapist make conscious sense of dreams, clients assent or therapist interpretation
According to randomized controlled trials, the average person receiving treatment is better off than
75% of untreated individuals
The therapeutic approaches used in the randomized control trials were
Psychoanalytic theory and more specific and contemporary approaches like STPP, CAF, MBT, and PIT
The evidence of psychodynamic therapies is
Limited
But research is less supported by
Psychodynamic therapists and they measure important beliefs
The research on psychodynamic therapies show that there is ____ difference across
Little; therapies
The research on psychodynamic therapies show that there is ____ difference across
Little; therapies
Where there are differences _____ or _____ approaches usually favored
Cognitive or behavioral
EBT stands for
Evidence Based Treatments
EBT assumes what?
We can classify mental health problems categorically
EBT ensures
That therapy offered has been shown to work
When comparing focal STPP with other therapies for anorexia
33% no longer met DSM criteria compared with 5% routine
Meta analysis of 6 RCTs comparing STPP with CBT for depression showed that
There was no difference between CBT and STPP
Psychodynamic psychotherapies are largely effective for
Depression, some anxiety disorders, anorexia, somatic disorders
Psychodynamic therapies lack evidence for
OCD, PTSD, psychosis, bulimia, bipolar disorder
There is no evidence that psychodynamic approaches are ___ effective in treating
Specific mental health problems
Challenges for psychotherapy; Freud worked with a very narrow section of society
Which is not representative of the population
Challenges for psychotherapy; evidence that rates of mental distress/disorder differ based on factors
Such as ethnicity and cultural background
challenges for psychotherapy; other factors such as age and level of income
Can affect how accessible and how effective psychotherapy can be
