Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies 5.5a

Question 1

Psychoanalysis

Answer 1

Freud’s therapeutic technique that attributes one’s thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts typically rooted in childhood

Question 2

Free association

Answer 2

A way of revealing unconscious thoughts and emotions

Question 3

Resistance

Answer 3

Unconscious attempts to block the revelation of repressed memories and conflicts

Question 4

Interpretation

Answer 4

Explanation of the unconscious meaning of the patient’s behavior, thoughts, feelings, underlying wishes, or dreams to facilitate the recognition of unconscious conflicts or motivations

Question 5

Transference

Answer 5

The patient projects feelings from the past to the therapist

Question 6

Manifest content

Answer 6

Actual content of dreams

Question 7

Latent content

Answer 7

Disguised or symbolic wishes, meanings, and motivations

Question 8

Psychodynamic approach

Answer 8

A more modern view that retains some aspects of Freudian psychoanalytic theory but rejects other aspects