Types of Therapy
treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
What is psychotherapy
They try to help people understand their current symptoms by focusing on important relationships, including childhood experiences and the therapist-client relationship.
Psychodynamic therapy
in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
What is resistance
____ believed that in therapy, people could achieve healthier, less anxious living by releasing the energy they had previously devoted to id-ego-superego conflicts
Who is Freud
Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
What is biomedical therapy
Over many such sessions, your relationship patterns surface in your interaction with your therapist. The analyst may suggest you are transferring feelings, such as dependency or mingled love and anger, that you experienced in earlier relationships with family members or other important people. By exposing such feelings, you may gain insight into your current relationships.
What is Psychoanalysis
in psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
What is interpretation
_____ developed Client-Centered Therapy.
Who is Carl Rodgers
therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.
What is psychodynamic therapy
This therapy emphasizes the power of childhood experiences to mold the adult. It aims to unearth the past in the hope of loosening its bonds on the present. After discarding hypnosis as an unreliable excavator, uses free association
What is Psychoanalytic theory
In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)
transference
a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Unconditional Postitive Regard
Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transference—and the therapist’s interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight
What is psychoanalysis
Dr. Carlson advises his depressed patients to discuss their childhood as well as their present lives. He also prescribes medications for them. His therapeutic style would be best described as
What is Eclectic Therapy
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.
What is insight therapies
Which of the following is one of the ways humanistic therapies differ from psychoanalytic therapies?
a. Humanistic therapies believe the past is more important than the present and future.
b. Humanistic therapies boost self-fulfillment by decreasing self- acceptance.
c. Humanistic therapies believe the path to growth is found by uncovering hidden determinants.
d. Humanistic therapies believe that unconscious thoughts are more important than conscious thoughts.
e. Humanistic therapies focus on promoting growth, not curing illness.
What is e. Humanistic therapies focus on promoting growth, not curing illness.
emphasizes people’s innate potential for self-fulfillment.
Humanistic Therapies
Tries to give clients new insights. Indeed, because they share this goal, ______ therapies are often referred to as insight therapies.
What are Humanistic Therapies
emphatic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers’ client-centered therapy.
What is Active Listening
Promoting this growth, not curing illness, is the therapy focus.
What is Humanistic Therapy