Theory of psychotherapy

Question 1

Analysis

Answer 1

Analyst aims to create a sphere where the unconscious can speak and be listened to. No other aims and doesn’t know what is good/bad for that person. No aim to adapt to social norms/exp.

Question 2

Psychoanalytic therapy

Answer 2

Analytic process within the context of therapeutic interventions. Mix of analysis and therapy

Question 3

Psychodynamic therapy

Answer 3

Form of therapy derived from psychanalysis, but more aimed at improving focussed problems/social functioning than unfolding analytic process

Question 4

Therapeutic allience

Answer 4

Importance of clients rational, undistorted perception of the therapist, and a feeling of genuine linking, trust and respect.

Question 5

Countertransference

Answer 5

Transference: viewing therapist as past experience

counter: Therapist part of feelings and reactions to the clients transf., function of his/her own unresolved conflicts.

Question 6

Intersubjectivity

Answer 6

Ability to hold onto one’s own experience while at the same time beginning to experience the other as an independent center of subjectivity