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2. Analyze avoided thoughts and feelings, wishes, recurrent
life patterns and fantasies, and significant past events and the
therapeutic relationship
3. When clients achieve insight into unconscious material, the
causes and significance of symptoms become evident, which
helps resolve the symptoms
4. This insight then often causes symptoms to disappear
Psychoanalysis
- : Psychodynamic therapists believe that by understanding previous unconscious
problems, the causes of symptoms become evident, which helps resolve the symptoms.
• Developed by Freud , one of the first forms of therapy= developed
psychoanalysis as the first form of psychotherapy or talk therapy.
- Psychodynamic therapy was inspired by psychoanalysis and
Freud’s techniques.
• Goal is to decrease guilt and frustration and make the
unconscious conscious
• Try to bring to awareness previously repressed impulses,
conflicts, and memories
-During the early 20th century, psychoanalysis was the most popular
therapeutic technique. According to Freud, those who had

psychological problems were exhibiting their childhood repressed
impulses and trauma
- His idea was that through psychoanalysis, he could understand
those unconscious, repressed feelings.
- Psychodynamic therapy is shorter in duration, requires fewer visits
and is less costly than psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalytic therapists use six methods used by Freud to
understand the unconscious mind and figure out the repressed
impulses, conflicts, and memories
6 Psychoanalytic Approaches
• Key Ingredients:
• Free association= Through free association, the client
resting on a couch say whatever words come to mind without
censorship.
• Interpretation
- Interpretation is related to forming hypotheses about the
client’s problems based on words said during free associations
and interpretations of dreams that provide explanations of the
unconscious mind about repressed ideas, impulses, or wishes.
- The therapists share the interpretations and hypotheses with
the client as they are building a trusting therapeutic relationship.
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• Dream analysis= Freud believed the unconscious mind is
projected symbolically into dreams and influences the
conscious life. Freud distinguished between manifest content
and the latent content of a dream.
- Manifest = Manifest is the observable or part of the dream we
remember
- Latent = and latent is the hidden part or the meaning behind
the dream.
- In dream analysis, therapists try to interpret the underlying
meaning of dreams, analyzing the latent content from the
manifest content.
• Resistance

- Resistance may develop as the client becomes aware of their
unconscious mind. Clients, therefore, want to avoid
confrontation and anxiety associated with repressed thoughts,
emotions, and impulses that are revealed.
- To minimize resistance, psychoanalysts try to make the client
aware that they are unconsciously blocking therapeutic efforts.