Pyschoanalysis treatment Flashcards
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what is this policy??
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Individualistic
2
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explain what psychoanaylsis treatment is??
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- was founded by Freud, is a treatment where the patient verbalises their thoughts, through a variety of methods
- aims to access unconsious, repressed thoughts which are believed to have led criminal activity
- assumptions are that any psychological problems, caused during development or repressed trauma, are embedded in the unconcious mind
- treatment tries to bring repressed thoughts to consiousness where they can be dealth with - anaylst follows free association so the patients talks about whatever enters their mind and is done lying down on couch facing away from analyst
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how does this policy link to individualistic theories??
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- has strong links to freud’s theory of the pysch
- according to freud the case of abnormal pysche and criminal behaviour, was negative experiences during childhood such as trauma abuse, neglect etc
- these experiences are left unresolved and stored deep within our unconsious mind
- theory attempts to bring these experiences to the surface in order to resolve them to prevent negative consequences like criminal behaviour
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what are the arguments for this policy working??
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- research by Berlin 1971, found out that out of 10,000 patients around 80% benefitted from pyschoanaylsis
- more research found that the longer the treatments took, the better the outcome
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what are the arguments against this policy working??
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- treatment is least favoured in contemporary approaches to working with offenders, very time consuming and unlikely to provide quick answers
- critisisms comes from Blackburn 1993, who points out that there are very few positive evaluations of classic pyschoanayliss as a treatment with offenders
- a patient could discover more painful memories that were deliberatley repressed potentially worsening metal state
- study in 2010 concluded that it works as well as other psychotherpay treatments such as cogntive therapy
