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Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Treatment: Urwah Ali Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist
Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Treatment: Urwah Ali Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist
Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Treatment: Urwah Ali Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist
Treatment
Urwah Ali
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychologist
(MSc, Mphil, PMDCP, PhD Research Scholar)
Therapeutic Goals
There are two basic goals when applying Psychoanalytic
Therapy. These are:
Tried to be a
neutral, objective
listener
Psychoanalytic Techniques
• “ Listening with the third ear” - hear not only the surface
content but also the hidden meanings.
▫ Any themes?
Different Functions of Free Association
THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFERENCE
• The development & analysis of transference constitute an important
therapeutic phase.
• The client's feelings for the therapist, who has become a significant
figure in the client's life, are used to demonstrate how the client
perceives, interprets, & responds to the present in the same ways he
or she responded to significant persons in the past.
Types of Transference
• Paternal Transference: The client looks to another person as a father
or idealized father figure (e.g., wise, authoritative, powerful);
• Resistance of any kind coming from free association, gets into the way
of progress.
Examples of Resistance
Resistance can take many forms in psychotherapy & affect a client's behavior
in many ways.
The following is a list of some forms of resistance which a client may use to
keep from dealing with certain topics with their therapist.