10•1• LESSON 1

•10•1• Therapeutic Techniques

-Activities intended to increase awareness and foster insight into client's behavior.

•10•1• * Latent content, or hidden motives, wishes, or fears * Manifest content: This refers to the dream as it actually appears

-Dreams have two levels of content: (2)

•10•1• Resistance

-attitude, idea, feeling, or action that interferes with change from present situation -therapist helps client see resistance is not helpful -reevaluate...continue on path or try something new?

•10•1• Dream Analysis.l

-investigation of repressed feelings expressed in dreams. - Psychoanalytic theory believes repressed feelings often manifest in dreams. - defenses are lowered when we sleep.

•10•1• Free Association

-involves exploring a person's unconscious through spontaneous word association. -encouraged to say whatever comes to mind when therapist presents a word -therapist interprets responses as patterns in associations identified.

•10•1• Transference

-transfer of feelings from the past to someone in present. -involves feelings being transferred from client onto therapist. This is valuable it allows client to re-experience feelings that need resolved.