Psychotherapy

Question 1

Freud’s psychoanalysis

Answer 1

Therapist is blank slate, 5 sessions a week for years. Mostly client speaking. Problems arise in first 5/6 years of life, sexual/aggressive wshes

Question 2

psychodynamic therapy

Answer 2

Main idea is that problems arise from unresolved mental conflicts. May be unconscious but effect the thought and actions,.

Question 3

Unconscious cues

Answer 3

Pscyhoanalysis focusses on the underlying cause of the problem which is unconsicous. To find out what the cause is, you need cues that tell you about the unconscious;
- Free association (first that comes to mind when….)
- Freudian slips
- Dreams. (manifest (the objective dream) Latent (actual meaning behind it)

Question 4

Resistance

Answer 4

Refusing to talk about certain topics, ‘forgetting’ to come to sessions. Defence mech activated, meaning you’re getting to core.

Question 5

Transference

Answer 5

Feelings towards significant person in clients life is felt towards the therapist

Question 6

End goal

Answer 6

Experience emotions and arrive at insight themselves, never fill in for patient