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This Austrian neurologist is the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
According to Freud, this is the primitive and instinctual part in all of us that consists of our impulses and desires. This is also called the pleasure principle.
What is the id?
This technique is central to psychoanalytic therapy, where clients are encouraged to say whatever comes to mind without censorship.
What is free association?
This therapy explores life difficulties from a philosophical perspective, encouraging clients to ask themselves "Why am I here?" and "What is my purpose?"
What is existential therapy?
From the Gloria Films, who did Gloria officially pick as the person she would most likely continue therapy with?
This Austrian psychotherapist deviated from Freud and created individual psychology, emphasizing importance of social interest.
Who is Alfred Adler?
This theory of psychotherapy with a German name emphasizes who, not partial, differences.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
Popularized by Fritz Perls, this technique allows the client to work through interpersonal or internal conflict. It consists of the client imagining someone in an empty chair and communicating with that person.
What is the empty-chair technique?
The goal of this therapy is to help the client enact change in their thinking patterns, which is likely to impact their feelings and behaviors. This therapy often involves homework outside of therapy.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
This acronym is frequently used by therapists to help clients with goal setting.
What is SMART?
This American psychologist asked out 100 women at a park to desensitize himself from fear of rejection. He later developed rational emotive behavior therapy, the first of cognitive behavior therapies.
Who is Albert Ellis?
This Freudian term refers to all the instinctual desires and energies from the id, not just the sexual ones.
What is libido?
This solution-focused technique asks the client to imagine and describe how the present or future would be different if the problem no longer exists.
What is the miracle question?
The goal of this therapy is to help clients emotionally enter and reauthor their own stories, or help clients construct new meanings in relation to stories told in therapy.
What is narrative therapy?
This practice, which is incorporated in third-wave CBT, encourages clients to train themselves to intentionally focus on the present moment with acceptance.
What is mindfulness?
This American psychologist is known for his work in operant conditioning, studying the way rewards and punishments shape out actions. He is considered the father of the behavioral approach to psychology.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This cognitive distortion is a process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings.
What is overgeneralization?
This behavioral technique helps the client cope with anxiety. Clients are taught to tense and relax multiple groups of muscles throughout their body in a specific order. This helps clients differentiate between a tense state and a relaxed sate.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
Motivational interviewing aims at resolving this feeling through eliciting and reinforcing change talk.
What is ambivalence?
This type of operant conditioning involves escaping from or avoidance of aversive stimuli. The person is motivated to show a desired behavior to avoid the unpleasant condition.
What is negative reinforcement?
This psychologist is the daughter of "the father of Cognitive Therapy". She has written nearly 100 articles and chapters on different aspects of cognitive therapy, and continues to educate and train therapists in CBT.
Who is Judith Beck?
This psychoanalytic theory is concerned with attachment. It explores how our relationships with others are affected by how we've internalized experiences of them and what they represent to us. It heavily overlaps with Bowlby's attachment theory.
What is object-relations theory?
This popular exposure therapy consists of imaginal flooding and cognitive restructuring to help clients access and process traumatic memories. It often consists of using rapid, rhythmic eye movements and other bilateral stimulation.
What is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)?
While this therapy shares many of the premises of person-centered therapy, this therapy does not believe the therapeutic relationship by itself is sufficient. Social activism is a key component of this therapy.
What is feminist therapy?
This is the mental illness that DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) was originally developed to treat.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?