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UNIT 8 Introduction to Therapy, and Psychodynamic and Humanistic Therapies

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psychotherapy   treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.  
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biomedical therapy   prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology.  
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eclectic approach   an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.  
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psychoanalysis   Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.  
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resistance   in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.  
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interpretation   in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.  
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transference   in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).  
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psychodynamic therapy   therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.  
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insight therapies   therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underling motives and defenses.  
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client-centered therapy   a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (person-centered therapy)  
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active listening   empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.  
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unconditional positive regard   a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.  
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