Psychology - What type of Psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on uncovering unconscious conflicts, feelings, and childhood experiences that influence current behavior. It often involves exploring patterns of relationships and emotions, such as transference, where a client projects feelings about important figures (like a parent) onto the therapist.
When she started relating to me in the way she related to her mother, it became clear that she perceived her mother as a rival for her father’s affection.
Psychodynamic
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When she started relating to me in the way she related to her mother, it became clear that she perceived her mother as a rival for her father’s affection.
Psychodynamic
That child was a bad actor, he had serious behaviour disorder. It wasn’t difficult to understand how he got that way after I had a few sessions with his parents and siblings.
FAmily
She has the worst case of agarophobia I’ve ever seen. A peer counsellor is stopping by everyday to work with her. It took a wekk to get her out the front door, and more than a week to get her off the porch. They’re working on walking out to the mailbox now. We’re making progress, but it’s slow.
Behavioural
I had to refer a patient to another therapist last week. I just couldn’t seem to identify with the guy, and couldn’t accept the way he acted. Feeling as I did about him, I didn’t think I could help him.
Humanistic
The theme of hostility toward authority figures occurs over and over again in his dreams and free assocaitions, ye the claims that he and his father had a close and affectionate relationship.
Psychodynamic
I asked her to list the reasons why she thinks she is unable to get through a job interview. She gave me three typewritten pages enumerating more fears, apprehensions, self-criticisms, and negatvie self-evaluations than I would have believed possible for one person to have. Her thinking about herself has really gotten off track.
Cognitive
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
When she started relating to me in the way she related to her mother, it became clear that she perceived her mother as a rival for her father’s affection. | Psychodynamic |
That child was a bad actor, he had serious behaviour disorder. It wasn’t difficult to understand how he got that way after I had a few sessions with his parents and siblings. | FAmily |
She has the worst case of agarophobia I’ve ever seen. A peer counsellor is stopping by everyday to work with her. It took a wekk to get her out the front door, and more than a week to get her off the porch. They’re working on walking out to the mailbox now. We’re making progress, but it’s slow. | Behavioural |
I had to refer a patient to another therapist last week. I just couldn’t seem to identify with the guy, and couldn’t accept the way he acted. Feeling as I did about him, I didn’t think I could help him. | Humanistic |
The theme of hostility toward authority figures occurs over and over again in his dreams and free assocaitions, ye the claims that he and his father had a close and affectionate relationship. | Psychodynamic |
I asked her to list the reasons why she thinks she is unable to get through a job interview. She gave me three typewritten pages enumerating more fears, apprehensions, self-criticisms, and negatvie self-evaluations than I would have believed possible for one person to have. Her thinking about herself has really gotten off track. | Cognitive |
He needs to convince himself that his past failures are not elements of a pattern that will govern his future. And he needs to convince himself that he is in charge of his life, an that he can choose the paths that will lead to accomplishement and satisfaction. | Humanistic |
We have this voluntary program at the federal penitentiary for men who have been convicted of child molestation. We are currently trying a method in which we pair electric shock with pictures of attractive children. | Behavioural |
People do not develop in isolation. They are part of an interacting system. To effect a change in an individual, it is necessary to change the social context in which the individual operates. | Family |
We think that depression is frequently the result of misinterpretations of environmental events, a tendency to attribute failures to the self and self-accomplishements to things like luck, fate, or the help of other people. Most of us have a self-serving bias in our attributions; people who are depressed have a self-defeating bias in their attributions. | Cognitive |