AQA AS PSYA2 Psychology- Psychoanalysis
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- Created on: 26-05-13 16:29
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- Psychoanalysis
- Dream analysis:
- Unconscious is revealed in dreams, therefore dreams can be analysed
- Free association:
- Client is free to say whatever comes into their mind, uncensored thoughts reveal underlying conflicts. An interpretation is offered.
- Projective tasks:
- This wasn't part of Freud's original techniques, and includes a piece of paper with ink blots on. The client is asked what shape the ink blots make, and particular anxieties may emerge.
- Aims to cure phobias or anxiety, and facilitate insight into conflicts and anxieties which are the causes of abnormal behaviour.
- Evaluation
- Expensive and time consuming
- Effective for mild neurotic disorders such anxiety, but less so for schizophrenia- Fonagy 2000
- Figures published by Ensack '52 suggested it was a waste, but when re-analysed by Burgin 2000, there was an 80% success rate.
- Ethical issues against it e.g. Mason 1988 said all power was in the therapist, which was wrong, and this power could be abused
- Difficult to measure its effectiveness - transference
- Dream analysis:
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