PPT # 2 History of Psychotherapy Flashcards
(63 cards)
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What are the elements of counseling as mentioned by Frank & Frank (1993)?
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- “Healing” Agent – (i.e. therapist)
- “Sufferer”: Individual, Couple, Family, Group, etc.
- Healing Relationship: Series of structured contacts
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What is the most important aspect of the therapy process?
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Relationship building!
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What are the steps in the therapy process?
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- Relationship building
- Assessment & diagnosis
- Planning
- Intervention
- Termination
- Follow-up
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Describe relationship building.
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This is where you get to know the client more
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What tool do you use for Assessment and Diagnosis, What does it include?
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- DSM-V or ICD diagnosis
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During the assessment and diagnosis, what does the client and counselor work to develop an understanding of ?
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- the problems or concerns the client wants to address;
- the ways in which the client’s cognitive and emotional attitudes, decision-making capabilities, and behaviors are contributing to the problems or concerns troubling the client;
- the changes that might be necessary to address the problems;
- what needs to happen for the desired change to take place.
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In the therapy process, what does planning involve?
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- Development of treatment plan
- Prioritize concerns
- Establish a mutually agreed-upon set of goals
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What does intervention encompass in the therapeutic process?
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- work to achieve the agreed upon goals
- Establish a number of specific, measurable objective
- Monitor and discuss the client’s progress
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Within the treatment plan elements, what are the goals for therapy?
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- What changes do you hope to see in the couple/family by the end of therapy?
- What will therapy target?
- Goal for Goals - Balance between Client-Focused and Therapist-Focused
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Discuss Clients Goals vs Therapist Goals…
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- Client Goals:
- Pro: Client-focused, connected to presenting problem
- Con: May not be feasible for therapy, may not connect to theories, may be focused on individual instead of system - Therapist Goals –
- Pro: Connected to theory and model, informed by literature
- Cons: may not represent client’s needs
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What are the last steps in the therapy process?
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Termination and Follow-up
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What is included in the termination process?
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- The therapist or the client initiate discussion of termination
- Termination begins before the final session
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What should the therapist and client review during the termination process?
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- the progress that has been made in achieving the goals they set for therapy
- the personal assets/growth the client has developed for dealing with future problems
- Plan for future issues
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What are three historical traditions of counseling?
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- Religiomagical
- Rhetorical
- Empirical/Naturalistic
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Describe Religiomagical.
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- Priests, Shamans, Religious healers
- Emphasized ritual, community connection, and introspection
- Connection: to each other, to ancestors, to spirits, etc.
- Value of culture and belief
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Describe Rhetorical
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- Greek “noble” rhetoric – aimed at persuading toward the “good”
- Plato “noble” rhetoric sought out sophrosyne : “a beautiful harmonic and rightful ordering of all ingredients of psychic life, by strengthening will, reorganizing beliefs, or by eliciting new beliefs more noble than the old.”
- Aristotle: rheotic involves-
- emotional stimulation
- logic based argument
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Describe Empirical/Naturalistic
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- Value “sensory evidence”
- Hippocrates – “mental-illness” can be “cured” like all other ailments –> Mental illness not personal/spiritual deficit – should be “treated”
- Science should guide our practices - systematic
- Freud, Jung, Pavlov, Skinner, Watson, etc.
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What did Freud (1856-1939) call science?
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- a “piece of science” and that it “ can adhere to the scientific world view”
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Who used free associations, and what are they?
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- Freud
- Whatever comes to mind, regardless of how trivial it appeared to the patient
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What did Freud call the Cathartic Talking (free association) cure and in what year was is solidified as a therapeutic method?
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- Psychoanalysis
- 1890’s
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What did the psychoanalytic technique include?
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- Close observation
- Interpretation
- Free association
- “Working through” A process of overcoming resistances to remembering and accepting what has been repressed.
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In 1895 Freud went to Paris to study with who, and what did this physician induce?
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- Went to study with Jean Martin Charcot
- He watched Charcot induce, and then cure, hysterical paralyses in patients through “hypnotic suggestion”
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What happened when Freud came back to the States and tried to implement this technique himself?
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- Some of his patients resisted even his attempts to hypnotize them.
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Through this resistance of hypnosis, what did Freud discover?
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- Realized that hysterical symptoms, such as nervous coughs or partial paralysis, disappeared through the patients’ recall of repressed memories and expressing them.
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Who ACTUALLY coined the term "talking cure"
Bertha Pappenheim, 21
AKA Anna O
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Why is Anna O.'s case so significant?
- She had hysteria
| - "absence": gap in her train of conscious thought. AKA dual consciousness
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What is the aim of psychoanalytic treatment?
Bringing what has been repressed, unconscious, and forgotten to conscious recognition.
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What did Carl Jung (1875-1961) write his dissertation on?
On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena
- AKA Psychological States
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Who was the first to apply psychoanalysis to severe mental illness?
Carl Jung
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How did Carl Jung define "complex" ?
- Included unconscious or repressed mental contents that supported both Freud's theory of repression and Jung's notion of partial personalities of the mind.
- "A collection of various ideas, held together by an emotional tone common to all"
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Carl Jung developed a perspective that assumed what kind of orientation?
Cultural-historical and methodological orientation
This was a shift from Freud's subjective and personal approach
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Who developed Psychoanalysis?
Freud
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Who developed Analytical Psychology?
Jung
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How did Freud view dreams?
To be fulfillments of wishes
As a window into the unconscious
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How did Jung view dreams?
Compensator, in that they functioned to maintain psychic equilibrium
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Freud concentrated on the ___________ of the individual, and Jung focused on the __________ __________.
Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
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What are Freud's basic theoretical constructs regarding defense mechanisms?
- Reversal into its opposite
- Turning round
- Repression
- Sublimation
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What did Freud call Primary Process Thinking?
Fantasy and daydreaming predominant in the unconscious mind.
Disregards logic and reality
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What is the governing purpose of the unconscious?
Experience pleasure and avoid displeasure
"Pleasure Principle"
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What structures are included in Freud's model on the mind?
- id
- ego
- superego
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What are Freud's basic Theoretical constructs of the topographic model of the mind?
- Unconscious
- Preconscious
- Conscious
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Describe the Unconscious.
- Id
- Highly volatile impulses that seek to discharge their energy --> to be conscious
- Mutually contradictory impulses coexist, without regard for reality, propriety, or reason.
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Describe the Preconscious
- Like a screen between the unconscious and conscious mental activity
- Secondary process thinking: rational, logical, and takes reality into account.
- Accessible to the conscious mind.
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Describe the Conscious.
- Receives information from internal and external events
| - Ruled by secondary process thinking (rational, logical, and takes reality into account) --> REALITY PRINCIPLE
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The reality principle with the conscious mind strives for what?
is useful and urges postponement of pleasure according to conditions imposed by the external world.
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What does Jung say are components of the unconscious structure? (basic theoretical constructs)
Personal: superficial layer of the unconscious
Collective: inborn and has more or less the same qualities everywhere and in all individuals
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What are Archetypes?
Based on an inherited predisposition to create significant myths out of ordinary everyday human experiences
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What did Jung mean by, "Dreams are residues of archaic modes of functioning rooted in the collective past of humankind rather than the individual’s past" ?
A way to compensate for all that the conscious mind is not aware of.
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What are Freud's psychosexual stages of development?
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Genital
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What are Freud's Neurotic Character Types?
- Hysterical = somatic
- Obsessive-compulsive = rumination
- Narcissistic = self-absorbed
- Sadomasochistic = “it hurts..and I like it.”
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Discuss the Oral Psychosexual Stages: Freud.
Ages: 0 - 1
Focus of Libido: Mouth, Tongue, Lips
Major Development: Weaning off the breast & feeding on formula
Adult fixation example: Smoking and overeating
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Discuss the Anal Psychosexual Stages: Freud.
Ages: 1-3
Focus on Libido: Anus
Major Development: Toilet Training
Adult Fixation Example: Orderliness, messiness
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Discuss the Phallic Psychosexual Stages: Freud.
Ages: 3 - 6
Focus on Libido: Genitals
Major Development: Resolving Oedipus/Electra Complex
Adult Fixation Example:Deviancy, Sexual, Dysfunction
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Discuss the Latency Psychosexual Stages: Freud.
Ages: 6 - 12
Focus on Libido: None
Major Development: Developing Defense Mechanisms
Adult Fixation Example: None
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Discuss the Genital Psychosexual Stages: Freud.
Ages: 12+
Focus on Libido: Genitals
Major Development: Reaching Full Sexual Maturity
Adult Fixation Example: If all stages were successfully completed then the person should be sexually matured and mentally healthy.
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How did Jung view personality development?
Personality is an achievement which gives the individual the greatest possible freedom for self-determination
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What did Jung characterize as psychological types?
Extravert and Introvert
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What did Jung say are the 4 rational psychological types?
- extraverted thinking,
- introverted thinking,
- extraverted feeling
- introverted feeling
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What are the fundamental principles of Treatment?
- Free Association and Therapeutic Interpretations
| - The Imagination and Therapeutic Enrichment of Symbols
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According to Jung, what are the 4 irrational psychological types?
- extraverted sensing
- introverted sensing
- extraverted intuiting
- introverted intuiting
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What are the fundamental principles of contemporary treatment?
- Dynamic: a point of view that regards psychic phenomena as the outcome of conflicts created by opposing mental forces
- Transcendent function: a correlation of conscious and unconscious data in order to arrive at therapeutic insight
- Analytic intuition: cultivated by falling into silence, rather than regularly interpreting what the patient says
- Reversible perspective: the therapist’s ability to regard what the patient talks about from two different perspectives, static and dynamic
- Synchronicity: seeing two seemingly unrelated events or things that happen at the same time as meaningfully connected
- Dreaming
the Jungian therapist can intuit a patient’s emotions in “dreaming” about the patient, both in a sleeping and a waking state
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Are there more similarities with Jung & Freud regarding contemporary psychotherapy?
NO
More differences than similarities -- even psychodynamic practice
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What are the the criticisms of Freud/Jung and contemporary psychotherapy?
- Despite the “scientific” approach – very little evidence to support many claims --> I.e. all boys lust after their mother
- Misogynistic – Penis envy anyone…?
- Over emphasis on sex and aggression (dual-instinct theory)
- Mysticism and the Cult-of-Personality
- Absence of “relationship” --> Therapists should be a “blank screen”
- No limits to therapy --> Big commitment for both therapist and client.
