Therapy and Stuff

• Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique
• Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences, and the therapist's interpretations of them, released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant events and behaviors in order to promote insight

in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight

a variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment to facilitate patients' growth

• empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies
• a feature in Rogers' client-centered therapy

• Paraphrase
• Invite Clarification
• Reflect feelings

a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude which Carl Rogers believed to be conducive in developing self-awareness and self-acceptance

therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and averse conditioning

behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid

the type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used to treat phobias

an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

a type of conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

• therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
• based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

teaching people to restructure their thinking in stressful situations

a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thoughts) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

• therapy that treats the family as a system
• Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

• Energy Therapies
• Recovered-Memory Therapies
• Rebirthing Therapies
• Facilitated Communication
• Crisis Debriefing

propose to manipulate people's invisible energy fields

aim to unearth "repressed memories" of early child abuse

engage people in reenacting the supposed trauma of their birth

has an assistant touch the typing hand of a child with autism

forces people to rehearse and "process" their traumatic experiences

clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Light Exposure Therapy