AP PSYCHOLOGY

TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

PSYCHODYNAMIC AND HUMANISTIC THERAPIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first major psychological therapy practiced by Freud utilizing free association was called
A
Psychoanalysis
B
Eclectic Approach
C
Psychotherapy
D
Insight Therapy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Sigmund Freud, whose work stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Freud developed and refined the theory and practice of psychoanalysis until his death in 1939.

Detailed explanation-2: -Free association-a tool used in psychoanalysis-aims to deepen your self-understanding by looking at whatever thoughts, words, or images come freely to your mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -Free association is a tool used by some psychoanalytic and psychodynamic therapists. The purpose of free association is to help you understand what you really think and feel about yourself, others, and the situations you are experiencing, versus what you tell yourself you think and feel.

Detailed explanation-4: -Psychoanalysis, also known as “talk therapy, ” is a type of treatment based on the theories of Sigmund Freud, who is frequently called the “father of psychoanalysis.” Freud developed this treatment modality for patients who did not respond to the psychological or medical treatments available during his time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud. Freud believed that people could be cured by making their unconscious a conscious thought and motivations, and by that gaining “insight". The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious.

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