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Founder of Psychoanalytic Theory
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Sigmund Freud (MD. Therapist needs to be clean and unbiased
Behaviors and symptoms are the result of an individual’s unconscious processes. ● Insight-oriented therapy helps clients understand the structure and origins of their personality. ● Therapists should receive their own psychoanalysis to be effective in using this modality. |
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| Change occurs through insight and understanding of early, unresolved issues and personality structures. Through increased insight, clients are able to restructure their pattern of being and consequently move to resolve the presenting problems. |
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| ● Assumes a neutral, nondirective role. ● Provides a safe and nurturing holding environment. ● Offers interpretation to encourage insight. ● Avoid being pulled into the client’s maladaptive patterns (countertransference). |
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| Unconscious techniques used by a person to strengthen their ego and protect themselves from negative thoughts and feelings that are associated with past experiences |
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| A technique that encourages the client to speak freely, linking words, images, and thoughts to other words, images, and thoughts without clear connections. |
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| A key technique used, whereby the therapist verbally communicates their hypothesis regarding the effects of the client’s past on their presenting issues. |
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| The process of the client transferring unresolved emotions associated with significant others in the client’s past onto the therapist. |
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| The process of the therapist transferring unconscious emotional responses associated with individuals in their past onto their client. |
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| Improve capacity to change through increased insight and awareness of the unconscious processes. ● Enhance clients’ ego strength and self-esteem. ● Decrease use of unhealthy defense mechanisms. |
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| ● Examine early relationships, attachments and interactions to discover what issues from the family or origin might be projected in current family relationships. ● Examine client’s self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviors. ● Allow the client to access painful feelings in a safe environment, experience the true feelings, and resolve the inner conflict. ● Ask clients to identify thoughts and feelings regarding events in the past. ● Identify defense mechanisms the client relies on to decrease anxiety. ● Analyze and interpret transference and countertransference taking place in the therapeutic relationship. |
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| Longer term treatment modality, sessions usually weekly for several years. Beginning: Establish a holding environment; Build rapport and therapeutic alliance through listening, exploration of client’s experience, empathy, interpretation, and maintaining neutrality. Early/Middle: Promote insight and growth; increase individuation; Work through termination/abandonment issues. End: Terminate therapy when the client is able to put new insights into action. |
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| Dating back to Freud, psychoanalysts recognized the decisive role of the family in personality development and intrapsychic functioning. ● The unit of treatment was initially limited to the individual, though this shifted over time as families became part of the treatment and would be seen by the same therapist. |
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