Psychotherapy Flashcards
Free association
Client says whatever comes to mind; technique uncovers unconscious meetings and pre-occupations.
Classical psychoanalysis (Freud)
Helps clients uncover and resolve repressed, unconscious childhood conflicts; involves four main techniques.
Transference
Client transfers conflicts and emotions onto psychoanalyst; showed client how they feel about important people.
Resistance
Focuses on what client refuses to talk about; helped client recall repressed memories.
Dream analysis
Involves interpretation of the dream imagery, because unconscious conflicts manifest as symbols and dreams.
Psychodynamic therapy
Modified version of psychoanalysis that explores unconscious conflicts based on cultural or interpersonal factors, not childhood.
Humanistic therapies
Treat the whole person; involves two main techniques.
Person centered therapy (Rogers)
Based on beliefs and fundamental goodness of human; therapist encouraged client to achieve self actualization via three techniques.
Unconditional positive regard
Person is valued no matter what.
Authenticity
Therapist is always honest.
Empathy
Therapist must feel what the patient is feeling.
Exitstential therapy
Tries to Imbue meaning into clients’ life. Helps client take responsibility and exercise free choice. Goal is to make client feel life is authentic.
Behavior therapies
Treatments that involve changing behavior with little or no attention to the causes of the behavior. Effective for phobias. They involve three main techniques.
Exposure techniques
Brakes connection between stimuli in the resulting fears.
Extinction
Therapist presents a stimulus without the threatening response, so that the associated fear will eventually disappear.
