According to Freud’s theory, dreams are distinguished in two types, either manifest content or latent content. Manifest content distinguishes dreams that are conscious and usually remembered when awaken. Latent content distinguishes dreams that are expressed as images or symbols, which is dependent on the unconscious thoughts or ones desire. Dreams could be distinguished as conscious and unconscious thoughts and desires. Dreams can also be persuaded in a scientific way.
So perhaps knowing why we have certain dreams will allow us to better understand why we have the dreams that we have. III. Despite Freud’s saying that dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, the use of dream analysis by therapists working with Borderline Personality Disorders and other severe psychiatric conditions has in the past two decades fallen into a state of decline, if not outright neglect. We must explore why this has happened because people are still having dreams. A.
Assignment 2 1. Critically analyse at least 3 types of therapy outlined in this course. HYPHOTHERPY – For this treatment to work a client would have to be at the stage to want to tackle their issues and want to be hypnotized in order to be hypnotized. A client must have established full trust with their counsellors/psychotherapists. Clients can enjoy the power of trance and the potential benefits that go with it, however, at any point, the client resists, the session is therefore ended.
Sigmund Freud's theory is the psychoanalytic theory unique to a certain point and which it has developed formal models describing the ways in which individuals process information on different levels (Bornstein, 2010). Freud saw dreams as a way of unlocking unconscious thoughts and untold secrets. Sigmund created his theory through the importance of unconscious. Carl Jung accepted the unconscious idea and developed the analytic psychology. Both Freud and Jung were drawn to the unconscious way of explaining dreams.
When a client is recovery, the recovery process does not just affect the client but those around them are affected as well, which is why there is the community reinforcement and family training. Recovery is a difficult process for the client as well as the family; therefore it is important for the family to have the capability to cope with the effects and side effects that are accompanied with the recovery process. There are instances where a client may have the urge to relapse; the cessations are not eliminated immediately. Therapy is an option in family recovery; therapy sets a pathway which allows the client to maintain change. I believe that the family recovery stages would allow the client in vignette one would be positive.
Describe and Evaluate the Psychoanalytical / Psychodynamic Approach to Personality Development Psychoanalytic theory originated with the work of Sigmund Freud (Gross 2010). Through his clinical work with patients suffering from mental illness, Freud came to believe that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influenced behaviour. Based on his observations, Freud developed a theory that described development in terms of a series of psychosexual stages. According to Freud (1949), conflicts that occur during each of these stages can have a lifelong influence on personality and therefore behaviour (Hayes 2000). Within this essay I am going to delve further into these principles and evaluate their validity and reliability as an approach to personality development.
Part I Different Therapeutic Approaches Listed below are the therapeutic approaches that can be taken in treating a client if the specialist in question assumes them. The client in question needs assistance for the extreme fear that prevents this person from functioning normally in relation to the opposite sex. Psychoanalyst As a psychoanalyst the expert will work on a number of assumptions like that this problem emanates from the clients unconscious thoughts and the fear that he portrays is as a result of hidden problems. In addition, the expert will assume that there concerns that were not addressed in the course of the growing of the client and that treatment will involve facing and dealing with these issues. The expert will let the client relax completely and give revelations of what he went through during his upbringing and what he dreams about.
Level 2 Describe key elements of Psychodynamic, Humanistic and Cognitive behaviour approaches of counselling. Psychodynamic approach This therapy originates from the work of Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) which believes that personality is greatly influenced by the unconscious mind and childhood experiences. His theory also believes that the personality is made up of three parts: id (instinctual drives, needs and urges), ego (intermediates between id and real world), superego (internal authority, morals, ideals). This type of therapy tends to be long term and considers the therapist as the expert to the patient (not client). Key aspects of psycho dynamic therapy are dream interpretation and transference that is when feelings from previous significant relationships are projected on to the therapist.
“Evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of psychosexual development can help us to understand a client’s presenting issue”. Introduction In this assignment I will evaluate Freud’s psychosexual theory and demonstrate that I have an understanding of this theory, examining the stages that clients are meant to go through according to freud and how its relationship to this theory effects a client’s presenting issue. I will also show how Freud’s theory has a relationship to a client’s neurotic behaviour, and look at some of the criticisms that this theory attracted from other critics, this will help me understand how it was used in practice. Freud’s greatest contribution to psychology was his theories involving psychosexual development, he had a very sexual way at looking at what happens to our mind from birth to teenage years, but before I begin to explain these in more detail we need to look at Freud himself to understand and have an idea on what sort of man he was. Freud was born in the Czech Republic on 6th May 1856, his parents were practicing Jews and were very religious, but as Freud grew up he himself, even though being a Jew never practised.
The psychodynamic approach evolved from psychoanalysis, founded by Sigmund Freud, who considered that people’s behaviours are influenced by their motives or dynamics. Psychodynamics has three distinctive features or assumptions. That the difficulty a client is having has an origin in their childhood. Secondly, the client is not consciously aware of these affecting their motives and impulses, and lastly that it uses the interpretation of the transference relationship between client and councillor (McLeod, p.91). This essay will now consider these features in more depth.