AP Psychology Chapter 16: Insight Therapies

Insight Therapies

• Insight therapies enhance self-knowledge through verbal interactions, aiming for healthful personality and disorder changes.

Psychoanalysis

• An insight therapy that aims to recover unconscious conflicts and motives using techniques like free association and transference.

Free Association

• Clients express thoughts and feelings spontaneously, minimizing censorship to uncover unconscious material.

Dream Analysis

• Involves the therapist interpreting the symbolic meanings of clients' dreams for deeper understanding.

Interpretation

• Therapists explain the significance of clients' thoughts, feelings, memories, and behaviors to foster insight and change.

Freud's Understanding of Disorders

• Rooted in intrapsychic conflict, anxiety, and the use of defense mechanisms to manage emotional distress.

Resistance

• Defensive, often unconscious strategies clients use to hinder progress in therapy, indicating underlying issues.

Transference

• Clients relate to therapists based on significant past relationships, revealing dynamics that can impact therapy.

Modern Psychodynamic Therapies Features

• Key elements include emotional focus, avoidance of distressing thoughts, pattern identification, past experience discussion, relationship analysis, and exploration of fantasy life.

Client-Centered Therapy

• Emphasizes a supportive emotional climate; clients lead the therapy pace, based on acceptance, genuineness, and empathy (AGE).

Roger's View on Disorders

• Anxiety and self-defeating behaviors arise from an incongruent self-concept, leading to recurrent anxiety and defense mechanisms.

Conditions of Client-Centered Therapists

• Therapists should embody genuineness, provide unconditional positive regard, and demonstrate empathy towards clients.

Positive Psychology

• Focuses on understanding the positive, adaptive, and fulfilling aspects of human existence through theory and research.

Well-Being Therapy

• Aims to improve clients' self-acceptance, life purpose, autonomy, and personal growth for enhanced well-being.

Positive Psychotherapy

• Encourages clients to recognize strengths, appreciate life blessings, savor positive experiences, forgive transgressions, and find meaning in life.

Group Therapy

• Psychological treatment delivered to several clients simultaneously, allowing for shared experiences and support.

Couples or Marital Therapy

• Treatment focuses on relationship issues within committed partnerships, involving both partners in the therapeutic process.

Family Therapy

• Addresses family dynamics and communication by treating the family unit as a whole, aiming for improved relationships.

Spontaneous Remission

• Recovery from a disorder occurs without formal treatment, highlighting the potential for self-healing.