Therapy

Question 1

psychotherapy

Answer 1

treatment involving
psychological techniques; consists of
interactions between a trained therapist
and someone seeking to overcome
psychological difficulties or achieve
personal growth.

Question 2

psychoanalysis

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud’s
therapeutic technique. Freud believed
the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and
the therapist’s interpretations of them—
released previously repressed feelings,
allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

Question 3

resistance

Answer 3

in psychoanalysis, the
blocking from consciousness of anxietyladen material.

Question 4

interpretation

Answer 4

in psychoanalysis, the
analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant
behaviors and events in order to
promote insight.

Question 5

transference

Answer 5

in psychoanalysis, the
patient’s transfer to the analyst of
emotions linked with other relationships
(such as love or hatred for a parent).