Psychological therapies - psychoanalysis
- Created by: z_mills1
- Created on: 18-05-14 13:25
View mindmap
- Psychological therapies - Psychoanalysis
- many of the factors that cause behaviour operate at an unconscious level
- there are the result of repressed memories or unresolved conflicts from childhood
- Free association
- patient expresses thoughts exactly as they occur, even if they appear unimportant
- intends to reveal areas of conflict and to bring repressed memories into consciousness
- therapist then helps to interpret these memories and the patient may add further thoughts or feelings
- Dream analysis
- Freud said that dreams were full of symbols which represent what is going on in our unconscious
- analysing our dreams help us to understand our unconscious
- Transference
- transferring feelings about a certain person onto the therapist
- feeling can be +ve or -ve
- helps to reveal repressed feelings
- analyst remains neutral throughout
- many of the factors that cause behaviour operate at an unconscious level
Comments
No comments have yet been made