Psychodynamic therapy Flashcards
Describe unconscious mind.
Mental process in which the individual make themselves unaware.
Describe Psychodynamic therapy.
Psychodynamic therapy, also known as insight oriented therapy, focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in a person’s present behaviour.
Involves looking at early childhood experiences in order to discover how these events might have shaped the individual and how they contribute to current actions.
It enables the client to examine past unresolved conflicts and symptoms that arise from past dysfunctional relationships and manifest in current relationships
Describe transference
its unconscious
Qualities of a figure from the past are attributed to the doctor and feelings associated with that figure are experienced in the same way with the doctor, eg. their childhood patterns or past ways.
usually a part of a relationship not the person
describe countertransference
Doctors may unconsciously experience the patient as someone from his/her past
Thus the doctors countertransference is similar to the patients transference
These can be a useful guide to the patient’s expectations of relationships
Awareness of the transference–countertransference relationship allows reflection and thoughtful response rather than unthinking reaction from the doctor
Examples of defence mechanisms.
Repression
Denial
Projection
Regression
Sublimation
Displacement
Freudian slip
We reveal what is really on our mind by saying something we didn’t mean to
that slips of the tongue provided an insight into the unconscious mind and that there were no accidents, every behaviour (including slips of the tongue) was significant (i.e. all behaviour is determined)
Selection criteria.
Emotional Distress
Willingness to talk (Basic hope & trust in therapeutic process)
Willingness to examine feelings
Willingness to consider difficulties in terms of chronic and pervasive interpersonal conflicts and difficulties
Capacity to develop meaningful
relationship with the therapist
