Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Psychoanalytic Therapies: Ronald John Recio Ma Rpsy Emdrprac Daaets
Psychoanalytic Therapies: Ronald John Recio Ma Rpsy Emdrprac Daaets
THERAPIES
RONALD JOHN RECIO MA RPSY EMDRPRAC DAAETS
VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE
• Id
• Ego
• Superego
CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS
• Evidence for the unconscious: Dreams, Slips of the tongue and forgetting, posthypnotic
suggestions, material from free-association, material from projective techniques, symbolic
content from psychotic symptoms
• Consciousness plays little importance in our lives, “cure” is targeting the symbolic meaning
ANXIETY
• Dread one feels from repressed feelings, memories, desires, and experience that emerge to the
surface of awareness
• Oral
• Anal
• Phallic
• Latency
• Genital
THERAPEUTIC GOALS
• Make unconscious conscious
• Strengthen ego so that behavior is more on reality and less on instinctual cravings or irrational
guilt
• Deep probing into past to generate self-understanding which then changes one’s character.
• “Blank-screen”
• Little self-disclosure
• Goal is for the client to project psychological material onto the therapist (transference)
• Consistency is key
FREE ASSOCIATION
• Say whatever comes to mind regardless of how painful, embarrassing, silly, trivial, illogical, or
irrelevant. Flow with any feelings or thoughts without any censorship.
• Nothing is taken at face value as the therapist listens to what they are saying and what the
client’s hidden meanings are
INTERPRETATION
• Analyst points out, explains, or even teaches the client about the meanings of behavior that is
manifested in dreams, free association, resistances, and the therapeutic relationship itself.
• Usual approach is you suddenly corner your client with harsh realities about his/her baggage
and have them confirm (positively or negatively) said baggage to develop insight into their
unconscious material
DREAM ANALYSIS
• Dreams contain motivations or symbols which gives us insight into the unconscious world of
the client
• Therapists ask the client to free associate the content of their dreams with that of their current
functioning
RESISTANCE
• Resistance – Fundamental to psychoanalysis; anything that blocks the continuation of therapy
• Reluctance of the client to bring to the surface the awareness of their unconscious material
being repressed
• Confrontation is the key. Goal is to let clients become aware to the reason as to why they are
resisting unconscious material from entering their consciousness
• Usually a defense to their day to day life, this serves as a reason to work through it rather than
around it
INTERPRETATION OF TRANSFERENCE
• Used to achieve here-and-now insight into the influence of the past on their present functioning
• Enables client to work through old conflicts that keep them fixated on the past and retarding
their emotional growth
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: BRIEF
PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
• Work within the framework of time-limited therapy
• Target a specific interpersonal problem during the initial session.
• Assume a less neutral therapeutic stance than is true of traditional analytic approaches.
• •Establish a strong working alliance.
• Use interpretation relatively early in the therapy relationship.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL
AND BPT
Traditional BPT
Passive role – Focus is on being a blank screen Therapist takes an active and directive role
Reserved for a special set of people More practical and focus is on everyday issues
Insight focus and self transformative Focus is also placed on interpersonal relations
• Individuation: attaining the ideal self; People usually see therapists fragmented or disillusioned
with self.
• People often participate in Jungian therapy for as long as they feel that they are continuing to
benefit from it. This means that therapy sometimes continues even after symptoms of mental
health problems have improved.
JUNGIAN APPROACH TO THERAPY:
TECHNIQUES
• Dream Analysis and Interpretation – Given more importance and is essential
• Transference Analysis
• Emotional Symbolism