AP PSYCHOLOGY

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TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

PSYCHODYNAMIC AND HUMANISTIC THERAPIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Freud’s therapeutic technique. Patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences and the therapists interpretations of them-released previously repressed feelings allowed the patient to gain insight A) Psychoanalysis B) Behavioral Therapy C) Cognitive Dialysis
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A
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None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological theories and methods of therapy founded by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis revolves around the belief that everyone has unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories. Psychoanalysis therapy is used to release repressed emotions and experiences.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is psychoanalysis? A type of psychotherapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties and internal conflicts.

Detailed explanation-3: -In psychoanalytic therapy, free association, dream analysis, and transference are used. Free association is used to give the therapist an insight into the client’s unconscious mind. Psychoanalysts also believe that dreams serve as an expression of a person’s unconscious desires and feelings.

Detailed explanation-4: -In psychology, catharsis is thought to be beneficial in terms of reducing stress and anxiety. The followers of the psychoanalytic school, such as Josef Breuer, believed that catharsis could be achieved through the process of psychoanalysis. This involved the patient talking through and deconstructing past experiences.

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