u8 m70 - intro to therapy, & psychodynamic and humanistic therapies

psychotherapy

• treatment involving psychological techniques

  • interactions between trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth (patient)

• derive from psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive

• electic approach

  • combines techniques from multiple forms of psychotherapy

• biomedical approach

  • medications or procedures direct,y on a patient (drugs)

psychoanalysis in psychodynamic theory

• psychoanalysis: Freud tried to give people insight and relief by bringing up anxious thoughts and feelings into awareness (from the subconscious)

  • free association (saying what’s on your mind) and interpretation (how you perceive and explain dreams, etc.)

• psychodynamic: briefer, less expensive, focused on helping clients find relief from current symptoms

  • therapists help clients see the patterns of themes in their relationships

psychotherapy

• treatment involving psychological techniques

  • interactions between trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth (patient)

• derive from psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive

• electic approach

  • combines techniques from multiple forms of psychotherapy

• biomedical approach

  • medications or procedures direct,y on a patient (drugs)

psychoanalysis in psychodynamic theory

• psychoanalysis: Freud tried to give people insight and relief by bringing up anxious thoughts and feelings into awareness (from the subconscious)

  • free association (saying what’s on your mind) and interpretation (how you perceive and explain dreams, etc.)

• psychodynamic: briefer, less expensive, focused on helping clients find relief from current symptoms

  • therapists help clients see the patterns of themes in their relationships

transference & resistance (psychodynamic)

• transference - giving someone the same feelings and thoughts associated to someone else

  • ex. characteristics of your father in a new boss

  • ex. patient sees characteristics of sibling in therapists, gets angry at them

• resistance - blocking anxiety-laden thoughts from consciousness

themes of humanistic therapy

• insight therapies (humanistic and psychoanalytic) that improve functioning by increasing client’s awareness of motives and defenses

• humanistic goals

  • help clients grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance

  • personal growth instead of curing illness

  • helping clients take responsibility of their self-growth

  • conscious thoughts > unconscious motivations

  • present and future > past

• client-centered therapy

  • by Carl Rogers

  • therapists contribution as a psychological mirror through active listening and a growth-fostering environment of unconditional positive regard