Therapy Types & Psychoanalytic Therapy

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Treatment or therapy

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are systematic procedures designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior

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Psychotherapy

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is a treatment in which a client and therapist use words and acts to overcome the client's psychological difficulties

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Biological Therapy

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is the use of physical and chemical procedures to help people overcome psychological difficulties

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Free Association

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is allowing clients to freely talk about whatever they want

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Resistance

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is a practice in which clients encounter a block in the free associations or change the subject to avoid a potentially painful discussion

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Transference

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a process through which clients come to act and feel toward the therapist as they did toward important figures in their childhood

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Dream interpretation

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was key in Freud's therapy

-Manifest content: what your dream was about

-Latent Content: what your dream was "about"

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Catharsis

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reliving past repressed feelings as a means of settling internal conflicts and overcoming problems

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Working through

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discussing the same topics repeatedly, producing new insights, with each session bringing the issue into sharper clarity and focus

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Relational Psychoanalytic Therapy

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is a school that holds that therapists should work to form more equal relationships with clients