Week 6: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Flashcards
(15 cards)
basic concepts of modern psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy
- attachment
- attunement
- mirroring
- (co-)regulation of affect
- mentalization
- epistemic trust
- humility and sitting next to our patients
attunement
reactiveness (afstemming) to another person
mentalization
Theory of Mind; ability to read, reflect and understand own an other’s mental processes
- important aspect of social cognition
epistemic trust
reliance and confidence that individuals have in the knowledge and expertise of others, particularly with regard to factual information and accurate understanding of the world
- essential component of learning, decision-making and social cognition
mentalization-based treatment: characteristics
- “not-knowing” stance: you don’t know better about the patient than they do about themselves
- promoting exploration
- affect focus
- addressing antecedents of reflective mentalization
- stimulting reflective thinking
- encouragement and maintenance of successful mentalizing
- stop and rewind
- monitoring of misunderstandings
- addressing irritations in the alliance
- transference and countertransference
transference
client associating the therapist with past experiences/people
countertransference
therapist associating client with past experiences/people
Affect Phobia Therapy
form of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP)
Malan’s triangle of conflict
defenses (changing subject, ignoring)
anxiety (worry, panic, fear, guilt, shame)
feelings
Malan’s triangle of person
therapist
current people
past people
primary process
primitive type of psychic functioning; unconsciously
secondary process
how psychic functioning is related to consciousness and builds foundation for rational and reflective thinking
common used defenses
- intellectualization = keeping emotional distance while talking about something
- projection = attributing to another person
- reaction formation = denying a threatening feeling or proclaiming feeling the opposite
- splitting = splitting the representation of a person in bad and good, to avoid ambivalent feelings about good or bad qualities in a person
psychodynamic psychotherapy
treatments that are based on psychoanalytic theory, but lack some of the defining aspects of psychoanalysis
containment
therapists’ process of attending to their own emotions when working with clients and tolerating painful/disturbing emotions in a non-defensive fashion
