Psychotherapy

Horneyian therapy

goal is to help patients gradually grow in the direction of self-realization

Horneyian therapy

aim is to have patients give up their idealized self-image, relinquish their neurotic search for glory, and change self-hatred to an acceptance of the real self

therapist's task

to convince patients that their present solutions are perpetuating rather than alleviating the core neurosis

self-understanding

Patients may look for quick cures or solutions, but only the long, laborious process of ____________ can effect positive change

self-understanding

must go beyond information and must be accompanied by an emotional experience

self-understanding

must understand their pride system, their idealized image, their neurotic search for glory, their self-hatred, their shoulds, their alienation from self, and their conflicts

self-analysis

Although a therapist can help encourage patients toward self-understanding, ultimately successful therapy is built on ???

self-analysis

Patients must understand the difference between their idealized self-image and their real self

dream interpretation

dream interpretation

dream interpretation

solutions can be either neurotic or healthy

dream interpretation

therapists provide a correct interpretation, patients are helped toward a better understanding of their real self

free association

patients are asked to say everything that comes to mind regardless of how trivial or embarrassing it may seem

free association

encouraged to express whatever feelings may arise from the associations

free association

eventually reveals patients' idealized self-image and persistent but unsuccessful attempts at accomplishing it