Psychotherapies

Insight therapy

&

Client – Centered therapy

Insight therapy• A variety of

individual psychotherapies designed to give people a better awareness and understanding of their feelings, motivations, and actions in hope that this will help them adjust

Who is at the bottom of this?

• FREUD!!!!• Psychoanalysis

believes that symptoms of disorders arise from unconscious conflicts

• Came up with way to resolve conflicts

Free Association

• Encourages people to speak freely, with little editing of thoughts and fantasies

• Freud believed that a “stream of consciousness” would give insight to the patient’s unconscious mind

Role – playing exercise #1

What happens?

• Analysis proceeds slowly

• People enjoy telling “secrets” they’ve never told anyone else before

• Analyst remains neutral

Transference

• Patient carries over to the analyst, feelings held toward childhood authority figures

• When the patient feels good about the analyst, it is called positive transference

Gaining insight

• As therapy progresses, analyst takes active role and beings to interpret or suggest alternative meaning for patients feelings, memories, and actions

• The goal of interpretation is to help patients gain insight

Role Playing #2

What else?

• Analysis requires a great deal of motivation to change

• Analysis usually takes 3 – 5 years

• Few can afford such lengthy treatment

• Not effective for severely disturbed patients

Client – centered therapy

• Carl Rogers: form of therapy that calls for unconditional positive regard of the client by the therapist with the goal of helping the client become fully functioning

Client – centered cntd.

• Rogers put responsibility for change on the person with the problem

• Uses the term client rather than patient to highlight the more active and equal role in the person in therapy

Rogers’ beliefs

• Signs of discomfort arise from conditional positive regard

• Therapist try to understand client’s point of view

• They are empathetically nondirective(no suggestions, instead reflect on what the person is saying now)

What else?

• Active listening• Rogers was

concerned with the process rather than stats or outcomes

• Lasting contributions about therapist (warmth and understanding)

Role playing #3