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WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY? - (Answer)•A process of therapeutic engagement
•A therapy meant to alleviate suffering and grief, help relieve existing symptoms
•A growth experience encouraged through a structured method and therapeutic relationship
•A method to regain equilibrium and achieve improved methods of coping and adaptation to life
•A complex interpersonal and intrapersonal phenomenon that fosters improved social relationships
and social support
What are some examples for different types of psychotherapy? -
(Answer)•Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic (such as Freudian, Jungian, Rogerian)
•Behavioral
•Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and subsequent
derivatives, such as Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
•Biofeedback
•Humanistic
•Supportive Psychotherapy
,•Play Therapy for children (various derivatives from the models mentioned above)
What are Freud's stages of psychosexual development? - (Answer)Oral, Anal, Oedipal, Latency,
Genital
•A psychosexual theory based on these stages and emphasizing the interaction of the Id (basic
impulses/instincts), Superego (moral force within) and Ego (the balancing force between the Ego
and Superego)
What is psychoanalysis? - (Answer)•Use of the couch for therapy so that the therapist can engage in
"free association" without the interference of looking at the analyst; sessions usually 3-4 days per
week, from 3-5 years or more
What is the psychodynamic approach? - (Answer)•Usually 1-2 times weekly, no couch, considered
a potent tool of treatment, but not as "comprehensive" as a formal analysis, length of therapy may
vary from brief to long-term
What is transference? - (Answer)what the patient projects onto the analyst from their unresolved
past experiences
, What is countertransference? - (Answer)what the analyst projects onto the patient
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training: - (Answer)usually a two year course of study post-
graduate, for those who would like to practice psychotherapy under this model
Psychoanalytic Training: - (Answer)a four-year course of post-graduate study which also includes
completion of a personal psychoanalysis and successful analysis of at least two patients under
supervision
GOALS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS - (Answer)•To produce a fundamental change in character
•The uncovering of unconscious conflicts
•To induce behavioral change motivated by new insights
•To correct developmental fixations and create more adult responses to situations that occur
•Freud: "To be able to love and to work."