Psychoanalytic Therapy

transference

The redirection of emotions experienced in childhood onto the therapist. client is reacting to present person in present situation as if they were someone they knew from the past (typically means an unconscious issue) dissect early relationships and experiences and analyze how they are affecting current relationships and interactions with therapist think breakups and being closed off to new boyfriend bc of what an old one did

Therapeutic techniques in psychoanalytic therapy include:

dream analysis analysis of resistance free association analysis of transference

Exploring a person's unconscious through spontaneous word association is known as:

free association

psychoanalysis techniques

free association dream analysis transference resistance each technique encourages client to think and express themselves and their past uncovers memories that may have been repressed techniques not only encourage the client to talk about their past, but they establish the courage needed to confront the individual's repressed fears; the things they have not dealt with

Repressed or unconscious feelings are most often explored through which of the following two techniques:

free association and dream analysis

Why can transference be a useful tool in psychoanalytic therapy?

it allows the client to re-experience feelings that need to be resolved

dream analysis content

latent content- what is being repressed, underlying meaning manifest content- the actual story and events of dream symbolic content- found across all cultures

psychotherapy

no concise clear definition, but always deal with core aspects of UNCONSCIOUS MIND sigmund freud

psychoanalytic therapy

occurs when a person speaks with a therapist to help understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. often examines childhood experiences and frames them with a new understanding- uncovering trauma

free association

A person freely shares any thought, word, or feeling that comes to mind with the therapist. ultimately uncovers things in unconscious mind

dream analysis

Interpreting the content of dreams to reveal underlying motivations or symbolic meaning.

resistance

When an individual's unconscious ego is threatened by an external source. typically present when individual feels uncomfortable or refuses to discuss a certain topic in therapy ego has built unconscious defenses For a therapist, this means that there is something the individual may fear or be unwilling to confront in their unconscious, which is probably the root of their mental illness; may go about treating the individual's resistance through methods of encouragement and direction toward this unconscious material

psychoanalytic treatment

really effective with anxiety and depression allows the individual to feely explore themselves in a clinical setting with someone trained to guide them toward unconscious material that may frighten them at first

Any attitude, idea, feeling, or action that interferes with a change from the present situation is called

resistance