Research and practice: Congruence reconsidered This article (Tudor & Worral, 1994) review Carl Rogers' definitions of congruence, identifying four requirements for congruence such as self- awareness, self- awareness in action, communication and appropriateness and also explore the interface between congruence and the other conditions of therapeutic personality change. Rogers (1990a) describes six necessary conditions such as psychological contact, the state of the client, unconditional positive regard. empathic understanding, the client's perception and the characteristic of presence. In conclusion, the author have reconsidered congruence as a way of being in process and as skills which we can practise, particularly through four …show more content…
There are three levels of unconsciousness which are the conscious, the preconscious and the unconscious and five stages of psychosexual such as oral stage, anal stage, phallic stage, latent stage, and genital stage. Repression, projection, identification and displacement are the examples of defense mechanism (Meyer et al., 1989).
The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
This article (Sheder, 2010) article provide an overview of some basic principles of psychodynamic therapy and brings together findings from several empirical literatures that relate to the efficacy of psychodynamic treatment. There are seven core features of contemporary psychodynamic techniques such as emotion, thoughts and feelings, themes and patterns, developmental focus, interpersonal relations, therapy relationship and fantasy life. But, the author also believed that non- psychodynamic therapies may also be effective in part (Sheder, et al).
The class were given a case study and asked to identify the psychosexual stages and what kind of defense mechanism that the person