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Psychotherapy
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Techniques employed to improve psychological functioning and promote adjustment to life
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Insight therapies
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The name for the group that therapies are often put together, that seek to increase insight into clients' difficulties
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Psychoanalysis
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Freudian therapy designed to bring unconscious conflicts, which usually date back to early childhood experiences,into consciousness. Also, Freud's theoretical school of thought, which emphasizes unconscious processes.
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Catharsis
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Freud explained that becoming aware of previously hidden conflicts permits a release of tension and anxiety, known as catharsis.
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Free association
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According to Freud, when you let your mind wander and remove conscious censorship over thoughts- a processed called free association- interesting and even bizarre connections seem to spring into awareness.
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Manifest content
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According to Freudian dream theory, a therapist might interpret a dream of riding a horse or driving a car, as a desire for, or concern about, sexual intercourse.
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Latent content
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Look at manifest content
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Resistance
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During free association or dream analysis, Freud found that patients often show resistance-for example, suddenly "forgetting" what they were saying or completely changing the subject.
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Transference
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Interpretation
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The core of call psychoanalytic therapy is interpretation. During free association, dream analysis, resistance, and transference, the analyst listens closely and tries to find patterns and hidden conflicts. At the right time, the therapist explains ( or interprets) the underlying meanings to the client.
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Psychodynamic therapy
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A briefer, more directive contemporary form of psychoanalysis, which emphasizes conscious processes and current problems.
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Interpersonal therapy (IPT)
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Is an influential, brief form of psychodynamic therapy. As the name implies, interpersonal therapy focuses almost exclusively on the client's current relationships.
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Cognitive therapy
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Therapy that focuses on changing faulty thought processes and beliefs to treat problem behaviors.
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Self-talk
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The unrealistic things a person tells himself or herself
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Cognitive restructuring
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Through this process, insight allows clients to challenge their thoughts, change how they interpret events, and modify maladaptive.
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